participer
French, verb/paʁ.ti.si.pe/
participer is spelled P-A-R-T-I-C-I-P-E-R (10 letters) and appears 56 times per million words in written French, the 1,478th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Participer is a French verb meaning “to participate” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Agir en commun, à quelque action, avec autrui ; coopérer”.
What does participer mean in English?
verb
- 1
to participate
Il participe à la cérémonie.
- 2
to donate
Merci de participer aux frais d'entretien des sanitaires
- 3
to share (emotions)
Elle a dit qu'elle participait à ma douleur.
- 4
datedto have some of the characteristics of; to partake of
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Agir en commun, à quelque action, avec autrui ; coopérer. 2. Vivre quelque chose en commun avec autrui ; communier. 3. Souscrire ou s’associer aux sentiments d’autrui. 4. Payer sa part de ; cotiser pour.
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 participer
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- participant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- participé participle past
- participe first-person indicative present
- participes indicative present second-person
- participons first-person indicative plural
- participez indicative plural present
- participent indicative plural present
- participais first-person imperfect indicative
- participait imperfect indicative singular
- participions first-person imperfect indicative
- participiez imperfect indicative plural
- participaient imperfect indicative plural
- participai first-person historic indicative
- participas historic indicative past
- participa historic indicative past
- participâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce participer?
- /paʁ.ti.si.pe/
- \paʁ.ti.si.pe\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to participer
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is participer in French?
participer appears 56 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).