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parjurer

French, verb/paʁ.ʒy.ʁe/

parjurer is a French verb meaning “to forswear, abjure” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Violer son serment”.

What does parjurer mean in English?

verb

  1. 1

    to forswear, abjure

Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How French dictionaries define it

verb: 1. Violer son serment. 2. Faire un faux serment en justice.

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 parjurer

  • avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
  • parjurant gerund participle present
  • ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
  • parjuré participle past
  • parjure first-person indicative present
  • parjures indicative present second-person
  • parjurons first-person indicative plural
  • parjurez indicative plural present
  • parjurent indicative plural present
  • parjurais first-person imperfect indicative
  • parjurait imperfect indicative singular
  • parjurions first-person imperfect indicative
  • parjuriez imperfect indicative plural
  • parjuraient imperfect indicative plural
  • parjurai first-person historic indicative
  • parjuras historic indicative past
  • parjura historic indicative past
  • parjurâmes first-person historic indicative

Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce parjurer?

  • /paʁ.ʒy.ʁe/
  • \paʁ.ʒy.ʁe\

Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

English words that translate to parjurer

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is parjurer in French?

parjurer appears about once in every 15 million words in written French.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).