quémander
French, verb\ke.mɑ̃.de\
quémander is spelled Q-U-É-M-A-N-D-E-R (9 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written French, the 47,811th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Quémander is a French verb meaning “to beg (for), to cadge” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Solliciter, mendier avec insistance et importunité”.
What does quémander mean in English?
verb
- 1
to beg (for), to cadge
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Solliciter, mendier avec insistance et importunité. 2. Demander, solliciter quelque chose.
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 quémander
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- quémandant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- quémandé participle past
- quémande first-person indicative present
- quémandes indicative present second-person
- quémandons first-person indicative plural
- quémandez indicative plural present
- quémandent indicative plural present
- quémandais first-person imperfect indicative
- quémandait imperfect indicative singular
- quémandions first-person imperfect indicative
- quémandiez imperfect indicative plural
- quémandaient imperfect indicative plural
- quémandai first-person historic indicative
- quémandas historic indicative past
- quémanda historic indicative past
- quémandâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce quémander?
- \ke.mɑ̃.de\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to quémander
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is quémander in French?
quémander 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).