pleurer
French, verb/plœ.ʁe/
pleurer is spelled P-L-E-U-R-E-R (7 letters) and appears 22 times per million words in written French, the 3,448th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Pleurer is a French verb meaning “to cry, to weep; to shed tears” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Répandre des larmes”.
What does pleurer mean in English?
verb
- 1
to cry, to weep; to shed tears
- 2
to mourn, to cry for
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Répandre des larmes. 2. Déplorer les fautes quelqu’un, ses égarements, ses malheurs, sa perte. 3. Faire apparaître un écoulement de larmes déterminé par une cause physique. 4. Dégoutter de la sève du bois d’un arbre ou d’un arbuste, après qu’il a été fraîchement taillé.
noun: 1. Action de pleurer.
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 pleurer
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- pleurant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- pleuré participle past
- pleure first-person indicative present
- pleures indicative present second-person
- pleurons first-person indicative plural
- pleurez indicative plural present
- pleurent indicative plural present
- pleurais first-person imperfect indicative
- pleurait imperfect indicative singular
- pleurions first-person imperfect indicative
- pleuriez imperfect indicative plural
- pleuraient imperfect indicative plural
- pleurai first-person historic indicative
- pleuras historic indicative past
- pleura historic indicative past
- pleurâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce pleurer?
- /plœ.ʁe/
- \plœ.ʁe\
- \plø.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 pleurer
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is pleurer in French?
pleurer appears 22 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).