Skip to main content

rumine

French, verb

rumine is spelled R-U-M-I-N-E (6 letters) and appears about once in every 3 million words in written French, the 59,168th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Rumine is a French verb meaning “first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With an accent, ruminé is a different word: “past participle of ruminer”.

What does rumine mean in English?

verb

  1. 1

    first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive

  2. 2

    second-person singular imperative

verb

as ruminé
  1. 1

    past participle of ruminer

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

How French dictionaries define it

verb: 1. Première personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif « rumine » lors de la postposition du sujet principalement dans une phrase interrogative ou interronégative.

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 rumine

  • ruminée feminine
  • ruminés masculine plural
  • ruminées feminine plural

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

How common is rumine in French?

rumine appears about once in every 3 million words in written French.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

What to look up after rumine