saigner
French, verb/sɛ.ɲe/
saigner is spelled S-A-I-G-N-E-R (7 letters) and appears 2.7 times per million words in written French, the 17,096th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Saigner is a French verb meaning “to bleed, to be bleeding” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Tirer du sang en ouvrant une veine”.
What does saigner mean in English?
verb
- 1
to bleed, to be bleeding
- 2
to bleed, to drain blood from
- 3
to knife to death
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Tirer du sang en ouvrant une veine. 2. Tuer ; égorger. 3. Exiger, tirer de quelqu’un une somme considérable. 4. Ruiner.
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 saigner
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- saignant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- saigné participle past
- saigne first-person indicative present
- saignes indicative present second-person
- saignons first-person indicative plural
- saignez indicative plural present
- saignent indicative plural present
- saignais first-person imperfect indicative
- saignait imperfect indicative singular
- saignions first-person imperfect indicative
- saigniez imperfect indicative plural
- saignaient imperfect indicative plural
- saignai first-person historic indicative
- saignas historic indicative past
- saigna historic indicative past
- saignâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce saigner?
- /sɛ.ɲe/
- /se.ɲe/
- [sæ̃je]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to saigner
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is saigner in French?
saigner appears 2.7 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).