renoncer
French, verb/ʁə.nɔ̃.se/
renoncer is spelled R-E-N-O-N-C-E-R (8 letters) and appears 13 times per million words in written French, the 5,439th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Renoncer is a French verb meaning “to resign, to quit” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Se désister de quelque chose, soit par acte exprès, soit autrement”.
What does renoncer mean in English?
verb
- 1
to resign, to quit
- 2
to renounce, to waive (legal; right)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Se désister de quelque chose, soit par acte exprès, soit autrement. 2. Quitter, abandonner la possession, le désir de quelque chose, l’attachement à quelque chose. 3. Se dépouiller de tout amour-propre. 4. Mettre une carte d’une autre couleur que celle qui est jouée, soit qu’on ait de cette dernière, soit qu’on n’en ait pas.
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 renoncer
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- renonçant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- renoncé participle past
- renonce first-person indicative present
- renonces indicative present second-person
- renonçons first-person indicative plural
- renoncez indicative plural present
- renoncent indicative plural present
- renonçais first-person imperfect indicative
- renonçait imperfect indicative singular
- renoncions first-person imperfect indicative
- renonciez imperfect indicative plural
- renonçaient imperfect indicative plural
- renonçai first-person historic indicative
- renonças historic indicative past
- renonça historic indicative past
- renonçâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce renoncer?
- /ʁə.nɔ̃.se/
- \ʁə.nɔ̃.se\
- [ʁə.nɔ̃.se]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to renoncer
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is renoncer in French?
renoncer appears 13 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).