sabrer
French, verb\sa.bʁe\
sabrer is a French verb meaning “to slash with a sabre” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Frapper à coups de sabre”.
What does sabrer mean in English?
verb
- 1
to slash with a sabre
Les cavaliers sabrèrent les servants de cette batterie.
- 2
to remove large sections from a text while editing it, to axe
sabrer de longues tirades
- 3
to open a bottle, usually champagne, with a slice from a sword
Ils ont sabré le champagne.
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Frapper à coups de sabre. 2. Manier vivement un objet tranchant. 3. Biffer, supprimer, faire de larges coupures dans un texte, dans un budget, etc. 4. Ouvrir une bouteille (généralement de champagne) d’un coup de sabre.
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 sabrer
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- sabrant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- sabré participle past
- sabre first-person indicative present
- sabres indicative present second-person
- sabrons first-person indicative plural
- sabrez indicative plural present
- sabrent indicative plural present
- sabrais first-person imperfect indicative
- sabrait imperfect indicative singular
- sabrions first-person imperfect indicative
- sabriez imperfect indicative plural
- sabraient imperfect indicative plural
- sabrai first-person historic indicative
- sabras historic indicative past
- sabra historic indicative past
- sabrâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce sabrer?
- \sa.bʁe\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is sabrer in French?
sabrer appears about once in every 4 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).