réprouver
French, verb/ʁe.pʁu.ve/
réprouver is spelled R-É-P-R-O-U-V-E-R (9 letters) and appears about once in every 18 million words in written French, the 136,634th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Réprouver is a French verb meaning “to reprove, condemn” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Rejeter une chose, la condamner”.
What does réprouver mean in English?
verb
- 1
to reprove, condemn
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Prouver de nouveau.
verb: 1. Rejeter une chose, la condamner. 2. Condamnations que Dieu prononce contre ceux qu’il rejette. 3. Simplement blâmer, désapprouver sévèrement.
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 réprouver
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- réprouvant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- réprouvé participle past
- réprouve first-person indicative present
- réprouves indicative present second-person
- réprouvons first-person indicative plural
- réprouvez indicative plural present
- réprouvent indicative plural present
- réprouvais first-person imperfect indicative
- réprouvait imperfect indicative singular
- réprouvions first-person imperfect indicative
- réprouviez imperfect indicative plural
- réprouvaient imperfect indicative plural
- réprouvai first-person historic indicative
- réprouvas historic indicative past
- réprouva historic indicative past
- réprouvâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce réprouver?
- /ʁe.pʁu.ve/
- \ʁə.pʁu.ve\
- \ʁe.pʁu.ve\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to réprouver
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is réprouver in French?
réprouver appears about once in every 18 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).