naguères
French, adverb/na.ɡɛʁ/
naguères is spelled N-A-G-U-È-R-E-S (8 letters) and appears about once in every 71 million words in written French, the 264,399th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Naguères is a French adverb meaning “alternative spelling of naguère” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Variante de naguère”.
What does naguères mean in English?
adverb
- 1
alternative spelling of naguère
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
adverb: 1. Variante de naguère.
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.
How do you pronounce naguères?
- /na.ɡɛʁ/
- \na.ɡɛʁ\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is naguères in French?
naguères appears about once in every 71 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).