raconter
French, verb/ʁa.kɔ̃.te/
raconter is a French verb meaning “to recount; to tell; to narrate” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Faire le récit d’une histoire vraie ou imaginaire”.
What does raconter mean in English?
verb
- 1
to recount; to tell; to narrate
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Faire le récit d’une histoire vraie ou imaginaire. 2. Dire avec légèreté ou mauvaise foi.
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 raconter
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- racontant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- raconté participle past
- raconte first-person indicative present
- racontes indicative present second-person
- racontons first-person indicative plural
- racontez indicative plural present
- racontent indicative plural present
- racontais first-person imperfect indicative
- racontait imperfect indicative singular
- racontions first-person imperfect indicative
- racontiez imperfect indicative plural
- racontaient imperfect indicative plural
- racontai first-person historic indicative
- racontas historic indicative past
- raconta historic indicative past
- racontâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce raconter?
- /ʁa.kɔ̃.te/
- \ʁa.kɔ̃.te\
- [ʁa.kɔ̃.te]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to raconter
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is raconter in French?
raconter appears 29 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).