sédimenter
French, verb/se.di.mɑ̃.te/
sédimenter is spelled S-É-D-I-M-E-N-T-E-R (10 letters) and appears about once in every 54 million words in written French, the 231,570th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Sédimenter is a French verb meaning “to sediment” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Se déposer, en parlant de particules minérales”.
What does sédimenter mean in English?
verb
- 1
to sediment
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Se déposer, en parlant de particules minérales. 2. Accumuler, comme des couches successives de sédiments.
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 sédimenter
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- sédimentant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- sédimenté participle past
- sédimente first-person indicative present
- sédimentes indicative present second-person
- sédimentons first-person indicative plural
- sédimentez indicative plural present
- sédimentent indicative plural present
- sédimentais first-person imperfect indicative
- sédimentait imperfect indicative singular
- sédimentions first-person imperfect indicative
- sédimentiez imperfect indicative plural
- sédimentaient imperfect indicative plural
- sédimentai first-person historic indicative
- sédimentas historic indicative past
- sédimenta historic indicative past
- sédimentâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce sédimenter?
- /se.di.mɑ̃.te/
- \se.di.mɑ̃.te\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to sédimenter
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is sédimenter in French?
sédimenter appears about once in every 54 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).