passionner
French, verb/pa.sjɔ.ne/
passionner is spelled P-A-S-S-I-O-N-N-E-R (10 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written French, the 47,227th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Passionner is a French verb meaning “to impassionate, to motivate” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Donner un caractère animé et qui marque de la passion”.
What does passionner mean in English?
verb
- 1
to impassionate, to motivate
- 2
to take an avid interest
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Donner un caractère animé et qui marque de la passion. 2. Se laisser entraîner par une passion, prendre un intérêt vif, violent à quelque chose. 3. Devenir amoureux.
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 passionner
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- passionnant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- passionné participle past
- passionne first-person indicative present
- passionnes indicative present second-person
- passionnons first-person indicative plural
- passionnez indicative plural present
- passionnent indicative plural present
- passionnais first-person imperfect indicative
- passionnait imperfect indicative singular
- passionnions first-person imperfect indicative
- passionniez imperfect indicative plural
- passionnaient imperfect indicative plural
- passionnai first-person historic indicative
- passionnas historic indicative past
- passionna historic indicative past
- passionnâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce passionner?
- /pa.sjɔ.ne/
- \pa.sjɔ.ne\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is passionner in French?
passionner appears about once in every 2 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).