réprimander
French, verb/ʁe.pʁi.mɑ̃.de/
réprimander is spelled R-É-P-R-I-M-A-N-D-E-R (11 letters) and appears about once in every 3 million words in written French, the 53,211th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Réprimander is a French verb meaning “to reprimand” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Reprendre quelqu’un avec autorité, lui reprocher sa faute”.
What does réprimander mean in English?
verb
- 1
to reprimand
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Reprendre quelqu’un avec autorité, lui reprocher sa faute.
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 réprimander
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- réprimandant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- réprimandé participle past
- réprimande first-person indicative present
- réprimandes indicative present second-person
- réprimandons first-person indicative plural
- réprimandez indicative plural present
- réprimandent indicative plural present
- réprimandais first-person imperfect indicative
- réprimandait imperfect indicative singular
- réprimandions first-person imperfect indicative
- réprimandiez imperfect indicative plural
- réprimandaient imperfect indicative plural
- réprimandai first-person historic indicative
- réprimandas historic indicative past
- réprimanda historic indicative past
- réprimandâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce réprimander?
- /ʁe.pʁi.mɑ̃.de/
- \ʁe.pʁi.mɑ̃.de\
- [ʁe.pʁi.mɑ̃.de]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to réprimander
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is réprimander in French?
réprimander appears about once in every 3 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).