réveillonner
French, verb/ʁe.vɛ.jɔ.ne/
réveillonner is spelled R-É-V-E-I-L-L-O-N-N-E-R (12 letters) and appears about once in every 19 million words in written French, the 142,934th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Réveillonner is a French verb meaning “to celebrate Christmas Eve or New Year's Eve, especially by having dinner with friends and/or family” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Faire le réveillon, y festoyer”.
What does réveillonner mean in English?
verb
- 1
to celebrate Christmas Eve or New Year's Eve, especially by having dinner with friends and/or family
On va aller réveillonner chez des copains.
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Faire le réveillon, y festoyer.
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 réveillonner
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- réveillonnant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- réveillonné participle past
- réveillonne first-person indicative present
- réveillonnes indicative present second-person
- réveillonnons first-person indicative plural
- réveillonnez indicative plural present
- réveillonnent indicative plural present
- réveillonnais first-person imperfect indicative
- réveillonnait imperfect indicative singular
- réveillonnions first-person imperfect indicative
- réveillonniez imperfect indicative plural
- réveillonnaient imperfect indicative plural
- réveillonnai first-person historic indicative
- réveillonnas historic indicative past
- réveillonna historic indicative past
- réveillonnâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce réveillonner?
- /ʁe.vɛ.jɔ.ne/
- /ʁe.ve.jɔ.ne/
- \ʁe.vɛ.jɔ.ne\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is réveillonner in French?
réveillonner appears about once in every 19 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).