obliquer
French, verb/ɔ.bli.ke/
obliquer is spelled O-B-L-I-Q-U-E-R (8 letters) and appears about once in every 22 million words in written French, the 150,781st most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Obliquer is a French verb meaning “to bear, bear off” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Prendre une direction oblique”.
What does obliquer mean in English?
verb
- 1
to bear, bear off
obliquer à gauche
- 2
to look away (from someone)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Prendre une direction oblique.
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 obliquer
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- obliquant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- obliqué participle past
- oblique first-person indicative present
- obliques indicative present second-person
- obliquons first-person indicative plural
- obliquez indicative plural present
- obliquent indicative plural present
- obliquais first-person imperfect indicative
- obliquait imperfect indicative singular
- obliquions first-person imperfect indicative
- obliquiez imperfect indicative plural
- obliquaient imperfect indicative plural
- obliquai first-person historic indicative
- obliquas historic indicative past
- obliqua historic indicative past
- obliquâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce obliquer?
- /ɔ.bli.ke/
- \ɔ.bli.ke\
- [o.bl̪i.ke]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is obliquer in French?
obliquer appears about once in every 22 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).