réfrigérer
French, verb\ʁe.fʁi.ʒe.ʁe\
réfrigérer is spelled R-É-F-R-I-G-É-R-E-R (10 letters) and appears about once in every 10 million words in written French, the 101,144th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Réfrigérer is a French verb meaning “to cool; cool down (artificially)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Refroidir un corps ou un liquide”.
What does réfrigérer mean in English?
verb
- 1
to cool; cool down (artificially)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Refroidir un corps ou un liquide. 2. Diminuer l’ardeur, l’activité, etc.
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 réfrigérer
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- réfrigérant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- réfrigéré participle past
- réfrigère first-person indicative present
- réfrigères indicative present second-person
- réfrigérons first-person indicative plural
- réfrigérez indicative plural present
- réfrigèrent indicative plural present
- réfrigérais first-person imperfect indicative
- réfrigérait imperfect indicative singular
- réfrigérions first-person imperfect indicative
- réfrigériez imperfect indicative plural
- réfrigéraient imperfect indicative plural
- réfrigérai first-person historic indicative
- réfrigéras historic indicative past
- réfrigéra historic indicative past
- réfrigérâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce réfrigérer?
- \ʁe.fʁi.ʒe.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 réfrigérer
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is réfrigérer in French?
réfrigérer appears about once in every 10 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).