renier
French, verb/ʁə.nje/
renier is spelled R-E-N-I-E-R (6 letters) and appears 3.0 times per million words in written French, the 15,828th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Renier is a French verb meaning “to renounce” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Déclarer, contre la vérité, que l’on ne connaît pas une personne, une chose”.
What does renier mean in English?
verb
- 1
to renounce
- 2
to disown
- 3
to take back (what has been said), to renege
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Déclarer, contre la vérité, que l’on ne connaît pas une personne, une chose. 2. Désavouer une chose, s’en détacher, la nier. 3. Renoncer entièrement à une chose, n’y vouloir plus avoir de part. 4. Refuser de reconnaître quelqu’un pour ce qu’il est.
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 renier
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- reniant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- renié participle past
- renie first-person indicative present
- renies indicative present second-person
- renions first-person indicative plural
- reniez indicative plural present
- renient indicative plural present
- reniais first-person imperfect indicative
- reniait imperfect indicative singular
- reniions first-person imperfect indicative
- reniiez imperfect indicative plural
- reniaient imperfect indicative plural
- reniai first-person historic indicative
- renias historic indicative past
- renia historic indicative past
- reniâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce renier?
- /ʁə.nje/
- \ʁə.nje\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to renier
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is renier in French?
renier appears 3.0 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).