obnubiler
French, verb/ɔb.ny.bi.le/
obnubiler is spelled O-B-N-U-B-I-L-E-R (9 letters) and appears about once in every 33 million words in written French, the 184,024th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Obnubiler is a French verb meaning “to cloud, to obscure” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Couvrir d’une sorte de nuage, assombrir”.
What does obnubiler mean in English?
verb
- 1
to cloud, to obscure
- 2
to obsess, to engross
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Couvrir d’une sorte de nuage, assombrir. 2. Obscurcir, en parlant de la pensée. 3. Obséder, s’imposer en permanence à l’esprit.
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 obnubiler
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- obnubilant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- obnubilé participle past
- obnubile first-person indicative present
- obnubiles indicative present second-person
- obnubilons first-person indicative plural
- obnubilez indicative plural present
- obnubilent indicative plural present
- obnubilais first-person imperfect indicative
- obnubilait imperfect indicative singular
- obnubilions first-person imperfect indicative
- obnubiliez imperfect indicative plural
- obnubilaient imperfect indicative plural
- obnubilai first-person historic indicative
- obnubilas historic indicative past
- obnubila historic indicative past
- obnubilâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce obnubiler?
- /ɔb.ny.bi.le/
- \ɔb.ny.bi.le\
- [ob.n̪y.bi.l̪e]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is obnubiler in French?
obnubiler appears about once in every 33 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).