récriminer
French, verb/ʁe.kʁi.mi.ne/
récriminer is spelled R-É-C-R-I-M-I-N-E-R (10 letters) and appears about once in every 49 million words in written French, the 221,532nd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Récriminer is a French verb meaning “to recriminate” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Répondre à des accusations par d’autres accusations”.
What does récriminer mean in English?
verb
- 1
to recriminate
- 2
to remonstrate
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Répondre à des accusations par d’autres accusations. 2. Reprocher, trouver à redire, critiquer amèrement.
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 récriminer
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- récriminant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- récriminé participle past
- récrimine first-person indicative present
- récrimines indicative present second-person
- récriminons first-person indicative plural
- récriminez indicative plural present
- récriminent indicative plural present
- récriminais first-person imperfect indicative
- récriminait imperfect indicative singular
- récriminions first-person imperfect indicative
- récriminiez imperfect indicative plural
- récriminaient imperfect indicative plural
- récriminai first-person historic indicative
- récriminas historic indicative past
- récrimina historic indicative past
- récriminâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce récriminer?
- /ʁe.kʁi.mi.ne/
- \ʁe.kʁi.mi.ne\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is récriminer in French?
récriminer appears about once in every 49 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).