monologue
French, noun
monologue is spelled M-O-N-O-L-O-G-U-E (9 letters) and appears 2.0 times per million words in written French, the 20,671st most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Monologue is a French masculine noun meaning “monologue” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive of monologuer. With an accent, monologué is a different word: “past participle of monologuer”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Scène d’une pièce de théâtre où un personnage est seul et se parle à lui-même”.
What does monologue mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinemonologue
verb
- 1
first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
- 2
second-person singular imperative
verb
- 1
past participle of monologuer
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Scène d’une pièce de théâtre où un personnage est seul et se parle à lui-même. 2. Scène dite par un seul personnage. 3. Discours d’une personne parlant toute seule ou ne laissant pas parler les autres, ou parlant simplement pour elle-même.
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 monologue
- monologues plural
- monologuée feminine
- monologués masculine plural
- monologuées feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to monologue
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is monologue in French?
monologue appears 2.0 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).