oublier
French, verb/u.bli.je/
oublier is spelled O-U-B-L-I-E-R (7 letters) and appears 69 times per million words in written French, the 1,207th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Oublier is a French verb meaning “to forget” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Perdre le souvenir de quelqu'un ou quelque chose”.
What does oublier mean in English?
verb
- 1
to forget
J'ai oublié tout ce qu'il m'a dit.
- 2
to leave something behind by accident
J'oublie toujours la chose dont j'ai besoin plus que tout.
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Perdre le souvenir de quelqu'un ou quelque chose. 2. Laisser quelque chose en quelque endroit, par inadvertance. 3. Omettre, manquer à faire mention de quelque chose dans un écrit, dans un discours. 4. Négliger ; omettre.
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 oublier
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- oubliant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- oublié participle past
- oublie first-person indicative present
- oublies indicative present second-person
- oublions first-person indicative plural
- oubliez indicative plural present
- oublient indicative plural present
- oubliais first-person imperfect indicative
- oubliait imperfect indicative singular
- oubliions first-person imperfect indicative
- oubliiez imperfect indicative plural
- oubliaient imperfect indicative plural
- oubliai first-person historic indicative
- oublias historic indicative past
- oublia historic indicative past
- oubliâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce oublier?
- /u.bli.je/
- \u.bli.je\
- [u.bli.je]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to oublier
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is oublier in French?
oublier appears 69 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).