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musarder

French, verb/my.zaʁ.de/

musarder is a French verb meaning “to dawdle” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Passer du temps à rêvasser, flâner, consacrer du temps à des riens”.

What does musarder mean in English?

verb

  1. 1

    to dawdle

Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How French dictionaries define it

verb: 1. Passer du temps à rêvasser, flâner, consacrer du temps à des riens.

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 musarder

  • avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
  • musardant gerund participle present
  • ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
  • musardé participle past
  • musarde first-person indicative present
  • musardes indicative present second-person
  • musardons first-person indicative plural
  • musardez indicative plural present
  • musardent indicative plural present
  • musardais first-person imperfect indicative
  • musardait imperfect indicative singular
  • musardions first-person imperfect indicative
  • musardiez imperfect indicative plural
  • musardaient imperfect indicative plural
  • musardai first-person historic indicative
  • musardas historic indicative past
  • musarda historic indicative past
  • musardâmes first-person historic indicative

Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce musarder?

  • /my.zaʁ.de/
  • \my.zaʁ.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 musarder

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is musarder in French?

musarder appears about once in every 27 million words in written French.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).