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périmer

French, verb/pe.ʁi.me/

périmer is spelled P-É-R-I-M-E-R (7 letters) and appears about once in every 15 million words in written French, the 127,906th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Périmer is a French verb meaning “to make obsolete” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Périr, en parlant d'une instance qui n'a pas été poursuivie pendant un certain temps”.

What does périmer mean in English?

verb

  1. 1

    to make obsolete

  2. 2

    to become obsolete

  3. 3

    to become outdated, to become out of fashion, to expire

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

How French dictionaries define it

verb: 1. Périr, en parlant d'une instance qui n'a pas été poursuivie pendant un certain temps. 2. Perdre sa valeur, passer de mode, être désuet. 3. Devenir caduc. 4. Devenir impropre à la consommation.

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 périmer

  • avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
  • périmant gerund participle present
  • ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
  • périmé participle past
  • périme first-person indicative present
  • périmes indicative present second-person
  • périmons first-person indicative plural
  • périmez indicative plural present
  • périment indicative plural present
  • périmais first-person imperfect indicative
  • périmait imperfect indicative singular
  • périmions first-person imperfect indicative
  • périmiez imperfect indicative plural
  • périmaient imperfect indicative plural
  • périmai first-person historic indicative
  • périmas historic indicative past
  • périma historic indicative past
  • périmâmes first-person historic indicative

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

How do you pronounce périmer?

  • /pe.ʁi.me/
  • \pe.ʁi.me\

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

English words that translate to périmer

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

How common is périmer in French?

périmer 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).

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