purger
French, verb/pyʁ.ʒe/
purger is spelled P-U-R-G-E-R (6 letters) and appears 1.9 times per million words in written French, the 20,952nd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Purger is a French verb meaning “to purge” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Purifier ; nettoyer”.
What does purger mean in English?
verb
- 1
to purge
- 2
to serve (a sentence)
- 3
to bleed (remove air bubbles from a pipe containing other fluids)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Purifier ; nettoyer. 2. Ôter, faire sortir ce qu’il y a dans le corps d’impur, de superflu, de malfaisant, avec des remèdes pris ordinairement par la bouche. 3. Dégager, en parlant du cerveau. 4. Débarrasser de ce qui altère, de ce qui est mauvais.
verb: 1. Appliquer une pression, plus ou moins forte, avec sa ou ses mains. 2. Utiliser un outil ou un objet nécessitant une pression pour l’utilisation ou le déclenchement d’un mécanisme, comme un vaporisateur par exemple.
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 purger
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- purgeant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- purgé participle past
- purge first-person indicative present
- purges indicative present second-person
- purgeons first-person indicative plural
- purgez indicative plural present
- purgent indicative plural present
- purgeais first-person imperfect indicative
- purgeait imperfect indicative singular
- purgions first-person imperfect indicative
- purgiez imperfect indicative plural
- purgeaient imperfect indicative plural
- purgeai first-person historic indicative
- purgeas historic indicative past
- purgea historic indicative past
- purgeâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce purger?
- /pyʁ.ʒe/
- \pyʁ.ʒe\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to purger
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is purger in French?
purger appears 1.9 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).