maudire
French, verb/mo.diʁ/
maudire is spelled M-A-U-D-I-R-E (7 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written French, the 40,183rd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Maudire is a French verb meaning “to curse” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Lancer des imprécations contre quelqu’un pour qu’il lui arrive du mal”.
What does maudire mean in English?
verb
- 1
to curse
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Lancer des imprécations contre quelqu’un pour qu’il lui arrive du mal. 2. Réprouver. 3. Détester une chose, exprimer l’horreur qu’on en a.
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 maudire
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- maudissant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- maudit participle past
- maudis first-person indicative present
- maudissons first-person indicative plural
- maudissez indicative plural present
- maudissent indicative plural present
- maudissais first-person imperfect indicative
- maudissait imperfect indicative singular
- maudissions first-person imperfect indicative
- maudissiez imperfect indicative plural
- maudissaient imperfect indicative plural
- maudîmes first-person historic indicative
- maudîtes historic indicative past
- maudirent historic indicative past
- maudirai first-person future indicative
- maudiras future indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce maudire?
- /mo.diʁ/
- \mo.diʁ\
- [mo.diʁ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to maudire
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is maudire in French?
maudire appears about once in every 2 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).