rompre
French, verb/ʁɔ̃pʁ/
rompre is spelled R-O-M-P-R-E (6 letters) and appears 8.7 times per million words in written French, the 7,421st most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Rompre is a French verb meaning “to break, to snap” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Séparer un solide en deux parties sans se servir d’instrument tranchant ; briser ; mettre en pièces”.
What does rompre mean in English?
verb
- 1
to break, to snap
rompre un traité
- 2
to stop, to block, to interrupt
rompre le cours de l’eau
- 3
to break up (with someone)
rompre en douceur
- 4
to break
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Séparer un solide en deux parties sans se servir d’instrument tranchant ; briser ; mettre en pièces. 2. Rouer ; supplicier par la roue. 3. Interrompre ; arrêter ; détourner. 4. Détruire, faire cesser, rendre nulle, une relation.
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 rompre
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- rompant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- rompu participle past
- romps first-person indicative present
- rompt indicative present singular
- rompons first-person indicative plural
- rompez indicative plural present
- rompent indicative plural present
- rompais first-person imperfect indicative
- rompait imperfect indicative singular
- rompions first-person imperfect indicative
- rompiez imperfect indicative plural
- rompaient imperfect indicative plural
- rompis first-person historic indicative
- rompit historic indicative past
- rompîmes first-person historic indicative
- rompîtes historic indicative past
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce rompre?
- /ʁɔ̃pʁ/
- \ʁɔ̃pʁ\
- [ʁɔ̃pʁ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to rompre
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is rompre in French?
rompre appears 8.7 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).