refuser
French, verb/ʁə.fy.ze/
refuser is spelled R-E-F-U-S-E-R (7 letters) and appears 22 times per million words in written French, the 3,526th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Refuser is a French verb meaning “to refuse” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Rejeter une demande, ne pas accorder ce qui est demandé ; ne pas vouloir faire ce qui est exigé, prescrit…”.
What does refuser mean in English?
verb
- 1
to refuse
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Rejeter une demande, ne pas accorder ce qui est demandé ; ne pas vouloir faire ce qui est exigé, prescrit, ordonné. 2. Rejeter la fréquentation 3. Rejeter une offre ; ne pas accepter ce qui est offert. 4. Refuser quelqu'un : ne pas accepter ce qu'il demande.
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 refuser
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- refusant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- refusé participle past
- refuse first-person indicative present
- refuses indicative present second-person
- refusons first-person indicative plural
- refusez indicative plural present
- refusent indicative plural present
- refusais first-person imperfect indicative
- refusait imperfect indicative singular
- refusions first-person imperfect indicative
- refusiez imperfect indicative plural
- refusaient imperfect indicative plural
- refusai first-person historic indicative
- refusas historic indicative past
- refusa historic indicative past
- refusâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce refuser?
- /ʁə.fy.ze/
- \ʁə.fy.ze\
- [ʁə.fy.ze]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to refuser
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is refuser in French?
refuser appears 22 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).