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résulter

French, verb/ʁe.zyl.te/

résulter is spelled R-É-S-U-L-T-E-R (8 letters) and appears 1.5 times per million words in written French, the 24,887th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Résulter is a French verb meaning “to result, to happen” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Faire suite à certains événements ; provoquer les effets de certaines causes”.

What does résulter mean in English?

verb

  1. 1

    to result, to happen

  2. 2

    to be the result of

Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How French dictionaries define it

verb: 1. Faire suite à certains événements ; provoquer les effets de certaines causes. 2. S’ensuivre.

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 résulter

  • avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
  • résultant gerund participle present
  • ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
  • résulté participle past
  • résulte first-person indicative present
  • résultes indicative present second-person
  • résultons first-person indicative plural
  • résultez indicative plural present
  • résultent indicative plural present
  • résultais first-person imperfect indicative
  • résultait imperfect indicative singular
  • résultions first-person imperfect indicative
  • résultiez imperfect indicative plural
  • résultaient imperfect indicative plural
  • résultai first-person historic indicative
  • résultas historic indicative past
  • résulta historic indicative past
  • résultâmes first-person historic indicative

Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce résulter?

  • /ʁe.zyl.te/
  • \ʁe.zyl.te\
  • [ʁe.zyl.te]

Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

English words that translate to résulter

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is résulter in French?

résulter appears 1.5 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).

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