nier
French, verb/nje/
nier is spelled N-I-E-R (4 letters) and appears 11 times per million words in written French, the 6,385th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Nier is a French verb meaning “to deny” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Dire qu’une chose n’est pas vraie, soutenir qu’une chose n’est pas”.
What does nier mean in English?
verb
- 1
to deny
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Dire qu’une chose n’est pas vraie, soutenir qu’une chose n’est pas. 2. Refuser d'admettre ou de reconnaitre. 3. Ne pas demeurer d’accord d’une proposition. 4. S’opposer à ce que l'on désapprouve.
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 nier
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- niant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- nié participle past
- nie first-person indicative present
- nies indicative present second-person
- nions first-person indicative plural
- niez indicative plural present
- nient indicative plural present
- niais first-person imperfect indicative
- niait imperfect indicative singular
- niions first-person imperfect indicative
- niiez imperfect indicative plural
- niaient imperfect indicative plural
- niai first-person historic indicative
- nias historic indicative past
- nia historic indicative past
- niâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce nier?
- /nje/
- /ni.e/
- \nje\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to nier
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is nier in French?
nier appears 11 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).