ordonner
French, verb/ɔʁ.dɔ.ne/
ordonner is spelled O-R-D-O-N-N-E-R (8 letters) and appears 3.1 times per million words in written French, the 15,592nd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Ordonner is a French verb meaning “to arrange, to organise, sort out (put in order)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Disposer suivant un certain ordre”.
What does ordonner mean in English?
verb
- 1
to arrange, to organise, sort out (put in order)
ordonner sa vie
- 2
to prescribe (e.g. medicine)
- 3
to prescribe, to order (give an order)
- 4
to ordain
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Disposer suivant un certain ordre. 2. Commander ; prescrire ; donner des ordres. 3. Conférer à un séminariste les ordres de l’Église. 4. Disposer de.
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 ordonner
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- ordonnant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- ordonné participle past
- ordonne first-person indicative present
- ordonnes indicative present second-person
- ordonnons first-person indicative plural
- ordonnez indicative plural present
- ordonnent indicative plural present
- ordonnais first-person imperfect indicative
- ordonnait imperfect indicative singular
- ordonnions first-person imperfect indicative
- ordonniez imperfect indicative plural
- ordonnaient imperfect indicative plural
- ordonnai first-person historic indicative
- ordonnas historic indicative past
- ordonna historic indicative past
- ordonnâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce ordonner?
- /ɔʁ.dɔ.ne/
- \ɔʁ.dɔ.ne\
- [ɔʁ.do.ne]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to ordonner
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is ordonner in French?
ordonner appears 3.1 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).