nager
French, verb/na.ʒe/
nager is spelled N-A-G-E-R (5 letters) and appears 5.5 times per million words in written French, the 10,464th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Nager is a French verb meaning “to swim” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Se déplacer dans l'eau (pour un être vivant) par le mouvement de certaines parties du corps”.
What does nager mean in English?
verb
- 1
to swim
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Se déplacer dans l'eau (pour un être vivant) par le mouvement de certaines parties du corps. 2. Parcourir en nageant. 3. Pratiquer, savoir nager (un style de nage). 4. Flotter.
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 nager
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- nageant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- nagé participle past
- nage first-person indicative present
- nages indicative present second-person
- nageons first-person indicative plural
- nagez indicative plural present
- nagent indicative plural present
- nageais first-person imperfect indicative
- nageait imperfect indicative singular
- nagions first-person imperfect indicative
- nagiez imperfect indicative plural
- nageaient imperfect indicative plural
- nageai first-person historic indicative
- nageas historic indicative past
- nagea historic indicative past
- nageâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce nager?
- /na.ʒe/
- \na.ʒe\
- \nɑ.ʒe\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to nager
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is nager in French?
nager appears 5.5 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).