minauder
French, verb/mi.no.de/
minauder is spelled M-I-N-A-U-D-E-R (8 letters) and appears about once in every 43 million words in written French, the 207,469th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Minauder is a French verb meaning “to simper” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Faire certaines mines, affecter certaines manières pour plaire et paraître plus agréable”.
What does minauder mean in English?
verb
- 1
to simper
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Faire certaines mines, affecter certaines manières pour plaire et paraître plus agréable.
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 minauder
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- minaudant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- minaudé participle past
- minaude first-person indicative present
- minaudes indicative present second-person
- minaudons first-person indicative plural
- minaudez indicative plural present
- minaudent indicative plural present
- minaudais first-person imperfect indicative
- minaudait imperfect indicative singular
- minaudions first-person imperfect indicative
- minaudiez imperfect indicative plural
- minaudaient imperfect indicative plural
- minaudai first-person historic indicative
- minaudas historic indicative past
- minauda historic indicative past
- minaudâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce minauder?
- /mi.no.de/
- \mi.no.de\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to minauder
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is minauder in French?
minauder appears about once in every 43 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).