seriner
French, verb/sə.ʁi.ne/
seriner is spelled S-E-R-I-N-E-R (7 letters) and appears about once in every 31 million words in written French, the 177,898th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Seriner is a French verb meaning “to drum something into someone” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Jouer un air avec la serinette”.
What does seriner mean in English?
verb
- 1
to drum something into someone
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Jouer un air avec la serinette. 2. Instruire un oiseau au moyen de la serinette. 3. Faire entrer à force de répétition quelque chose dans la tête de quelqu’un. 4. Répéter inlassablement quelque chose.
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 seriner
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- serinant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- seriné participle past
- serine first-person indicative present
- serines indicative present second-person
- serinons first-person indicative plural
- serinez indicative plural present
- serinent indicative plural present
- serinais first-person imperfect indicative
- serinait imperfect indicative singular
- serinions first-person imperfect indicative
- seriniez imperfect indicative plural
- serinaient imperfect indicative plural
- serinai first-person historic indicative
- serinas historic indicative past
- serina historic indicative past
- serinâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce seriner?
- /sə.ʁi.ne/
- \sə.ʁi.ne\
- \sʁi.ne\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is seriner in French?
seriner appears about once in every 31 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).