renfoncer
French, verb\ʁɑ̃.fɔ̃.se\
renfoncer is spelled R-E-N-F-O-N-C-E-R (9 letters) and appears about once in every 58 million words in written French, the 239,448th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Renfoncer is a French verb meaning “to push in etc again” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Enfoncer de nouveau, enfoncer plus avant”.
What does renfoncer mean in English?
verb
- 1
to push in etc again
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Enfoncer de nouveau, enfoncer plus avant. 2. Faire commencer plus ou moins en arrière, en parlant des lignes qui suivent ou qui précèdent.
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 renfoncer
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- renfonçant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- renfoncé participle past
- renfonce first-person indicative present
- renfonces indicative present second-person
- renfonçons first-person indicative plural
- renfoncez indicative plural present
- renfoncent indicative plural present
- renfonçais first-person imperfect indicative
- renfonçait imperfect indicative singular
- renfoncions first-person imperfect indicative
- renfonciez imperfect indicative plural
- renfonçaient imperfect indicative plural
- renfonçai first-person historic indicative
- renfonças historic indicative past
- renfonça historic indicative past
- renfonçâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce renfoncer?
- \ʁɑ̃.fɔ̃.se\
- [ʁɑ̃.fɔ̃.ɬ͡se]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is renfoncer in French?
renfoncer appears about once in every 58 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).