sermonner
French, verb/sɛʁ.mɔ.ne/
sermonner is spelled S-E-R-M-O-N-N-E-R (9 letters) and appears about once in every 5 million words in written French, the 71,364th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Sermonner is a French verb meaning “to lecture, sermonise” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Faire des remontrances ennuyeuses et hors de propos”.
What does sermonner mean in English?
verb
- 1
to lecture, sermonise
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Faire des remontrances ennuyeuses et hors de propos.
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 sermonner
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- sermonnant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- sermonné participle past
- sermonne first-person indicative present
- sermonnes indicative present second-person
- sermonnons first-person indicative plural
- sermonnez indicative plural present
- sermonnent indicative plural present
- sermonnais first-person imperfect indicative
- sermonnait imperfect indicative singular
- sermonnions first-person imperfect indicative
- sermonniez imperfect indicative plural
- sermonnaient imperfect indicative plural
- sermonnai first-person historic indicative
- sermonnas historic indicative past
- sermonna historic indicative past
- sermonnâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce sermonner?
- /sɛʁ.mɔ.ne/
- \sɛʁ.mɔ.ne\
- [sɛʁ.mɔ.ne]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to sermonner
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is sermonner in French?
sermonner appears about once in every 5 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).