mariner
French, verb/ma.ʁi.ne/
mariner is spelled M-A-R-I-N-E-R (7 letters) and appears about once in every 1 million words in written French, the 34,445th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Mariner is a French verb meaning “to marinate” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Faire cuire du poisson et l’assaisonner de telle sorte qu’il puisse se conserver très longtemps”.
What does mariner mean in English?
verb
- 1
to marinate
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Faire cuire du poisson et l’assaisonner de telle sorte qu’il puisse se conserver très longtemps. 2. Faire tremper de la viande dans une marinade. 3. Altérer, gâter par l’eau ou par l’air de la mer. 4. Laisser quelqu’un assez longtemps dans une situation d’attente.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of mariner
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- marinant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- mariné participle past
- marine first-person indicative present
- marines indicative present second-person
- marinons first-person indicative plural
- marinez indicative plural present
- marinent indicative plural present
- marinais first-person imperfect indicative
- marinait imperfect indicative singular
- marinions first-person imperfect indicative
- mariniez imperfect indicative plural
- marinaient imperfect indicative plural
- marinai first-person historic indicative
- marinas historic indicative past
- marina historic indicative past
- marinâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce mariner?
- /ma.ʁi.ne/
- \ma.ʁi.ne\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to mariner
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is mariner in French?
mariner appears about once in every 1 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).