marquer
French, verb/maʁ.ke/
marquer is spelled M-A-R-Q-U-E-R (7 letters) and appears 20 times per million words in written French, the 3,747th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Marquer is a French verb meaning “to mark, mark down (to add a mark or a spot to something)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Distinguer une chose d’une autre au moyen d’une marque”.
What does marquer mean in English?
verb
- 1
to mark, mark down (to add a mark or a spot to something)
Marquer le papier.
- 2
to mark (to place a mark in something as a reminder)
Marquer la page dans le livre
- 3
to brand (brandish someone's skin with a mark)
Marquer la peau avec du fer chaud.
- 4
to mark (to feature as a highlight of something)
Ce projet va marquer l'avenir de la firme.
- 5
to score (e.g. a point or a goal)
Vous devez marquer trois buts si vous voulez gagner.
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Distinguer une chose d’une autre au moyen d’une marque. 2. Imprimer, avec un fer chaud, un signe flétrissant sur l’épaule de l’homme qui est condamné à cette peine. 3. Faire une marque, une impression sur quelque partie du corps, par contusion, blessure, brûlure, etc. 4. Garder une trace, une empreinte des contacts reçus.
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 marquer
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- marquant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- marqué participle past
- marque first-person indicative present
- marques indicative present second-person
- marquons first-person indicative plural
- marquez indicative plural present
- marquent indicative plural present
- marquais first-person imperfect indicative
- marquait imperfect indicative singular
- marquions first-person imperfect indicative
- marquiez imperfect indicative plural
- marquaient imperfect indicative plural
- marquai first-person historic indicative
- marquas historic indicative past
- marqua historic indicative past
- marquâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce marquer?
- /maʁ.ke/
- \maʁ.ke\
- [maʁ.ke]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to marquer
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is marquer in French?
marquer appears 20 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).