réincarner
French, verb/ʁe.ɛ̃.kaʁ.ne/
réincarner is spelled R-É-I-N-C-A-R-N-E-R (10 letters) and appears about once in every 5 million words in written French, the 73,020th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Réincarner is a French verb meaning “to reincarnate (to be reincarnated)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “S’incarner de nouveau”.
What does réincarner mean in English?
verb
- 1
to reincarnate (to be reincarnated)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. S’incarner de nouveau. 2. Se transformer, se métamorphoser.
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 réincarner
- se réincarner infinitive reflexive
- s'être + past participle infinitive multiword-construction reflexive
- se réincarnant gerund participle present
- ayant gerund multiword-construction participle
- étant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- réincarné participle past reflexive
- me réincarne first-person indicative present
- te réincarnes indicative present reflexive
- se réincarne indicative present reflexive
- nous réincarnons first-person indicative plural
- vous réincarnez indicative plural present
- se réincarnent indicative plural present
- me réincarnais first-person imperfect indicative
- te réincarnais imperfect indicative reflexive
- se réincarnait imperfect indicative reflexive
- nous réincarnions first-person imperfect indicative
- vous réincarniez imperfect indicative plural
- se réincarnaient imperfect indicative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce réincarner?
- /ʁe.ɛ̃.kaʁ.ne/
- \ʁe.ɛ̃.kaʁ.ne\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to réincarner
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is réincarner in French?
réincarner appears about once in every 5 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).