résoudre
French, verb
résoudre is spelled R-É-S-O-U-D-R-E (8 letters) and appears 27 times per million words in written French, the 2,920th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Résoudre is a French verb meaning “to resolve (to find a solution to)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). Without its accent, resoudre is a different word: “to appear suddenly from nowhere”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Décomposer un corps en ses éléments”.
What does résoudre mean in English?
verb
- 1
to resolve (to find a solution to)
résoudre un problème, une difficulté, un conflit, un mystère
- 2
to resolve, to make up one's mind
verb
- 1
Quebecto appear suddenly from nowhere
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Décomposer un corps en ses éléments. 2. Faire disparaître peu à peu et sans suppuration. 3. Casser, annuler un acte par un acte contraire. 4. Trouver la solution, donner une explication satisfaisante à un cas douteux, une question.
verb: 1. Surgir de nulle part, arriver à l’improviste.
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 résoudre
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- résolvant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- résolu participle past
- résous first-person indicative present
- résout indicative present singular
- résolvons first-person indicative plural
- résolvez indicative plural present
- résolvent indicative plural present
- résolvais first-person imperfect indicative
- résolvait imperfect indicative singular
- résolvions first-person imperfect indicative
- résolviez imperfect indicative plural
- résolvaient imperfect indicative plural
- résolus first-person historic indicative
- résolut historic indicative past
- résolûmes first-person historic indicative
- résolûtes historic indicative past
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to résoudre
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is résoudre in French?
résoudre appears 27 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).