ombrager
French, verb/ɔ̃.bʁa.ʒe/
ombrager is spelled O-M-B-R-A-G-E-R (8 letters) and appears about once in every 46 million words in written French, the 214,487th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Ombrager is a French verb meaning “to shade” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Mettre à l’abri des rayons du soleil”.
What does ombrager mean in English?
verb
- 1
to shade
- 2
to overshadow
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Mettre à l’abri des rayons du soleil. 2. Couvrir d’ombre.
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 ombrager
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- ombrageant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- ombragé participle past
- ombrage first-person indicative present
- ombrages indicative present second-person
- ombrageons first-person indicative plural
- ombragez indicative plural present
- ombragent indicative plural present
- ombrageais first-person imperfect indicative
- ombrageait imperfect indicative singular
- ombragions first-person imperfect indicative
- ombragiez imperfect indicative plural
- ombrageaient imperfect indicative plural
- ombrageai first-person historic indicative
- ombrageas historic indicative past
- ombragea historic indicative past
- ombrageâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce ombrager?
- /ɔ̃.bʁa.ʒe/
- \ɔ̃.bʁa.ʒe\
- [ɔ̃.bʁa.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 ombrager
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is ombrager in French?
ombrager appears about once in every 46 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).