répugner
French, verb/ʁe.py.ɲe/
répugner is spelled R-É-P-U-G-N-E-R (8 letters) and appears about once in every 40 million words in written French, the 200,689th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Répugner is a French verb meaning “to repel, disgust” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Être plus ou moins opposé”.
What does répugner mean in English?
verb
- 1
to repel, disgust
- 2
to be loath or reluctant (to do something)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Être plus ou moins opposé. 2. Contredire, avoir quelque contradiction. 3. Éprouver un sentiment de répugnance. 4. Causer, inspirer de la répugnance.
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 répugner
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- répugnant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- répugné participle past
- répugne first-person indicative present
- répugnes indicative present second-person
- répugnons first-person indicative plural
- répugnez indicative plural present
- répugnent indicative plural present
- répugnais first-person imperfect indicative
- répugnait imperfect indicative singular
- répugnions first-person imperfect indicative
- répugniez imperfect indicative plural
- répugnaient imperfect indicative plural
- répugnai first-person historic indicative
- répugnas historic indicative past
- répugna historic indicative past
- répugnâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce répugner?
- /ʁe.py.ɲe/
- \ʁe.py.ɲe\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is répugner in French?
répugner appears about once in every 40 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).