mendier
French, verb/mɑ̃.dje/
mendier is spelled M-E-N-D-I-E-R (7 letters) and appears 1.1 times per million words in written French, the 29,681st most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Mendier is a French verb meaning “to beg (plead for money or goods)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Demander l’aumône”.
What does mendier mean in English?
verb
- 1
to beg (plead for money or goods)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Demander l’aumône. 2. Solliciter à titre d’aumône. 3. Implorer.
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 mendier
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- mendiant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- mendié participle past
- mendie first-person indicative present
- mendies indicative present second-person
- mendions first-person indicative plural
- mendiez indicative plural present
- mendient indicative plural present
- mendiais first-person imperfect indicative
- mendiait imperfect indicative singular
- mendiions first-person imperfect indicative
- mendiiez imperfect indicative plural
- mendiaient imperfect indicative plural
- mendiai first-person historic indicative
- mendias historic indicative past
- mendia historic indicative past
- mendiâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce mendier?
- /mɑ̃.dje/
- \mɑ̃.dje\
- [mɑ̃.dje]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to mendier
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is mendier in French?
mendier appears 1.1 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).