sertir
French, verb/sɛʁ.tiʁ/
sertir is spelled S-E-R-T-I-R (6 letters) and appears about once in every 17 million words in written French, the 132,154th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Sertir is a French verb meaning “to crimp” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Enchâsser une pierre dans un chaton, dont on rabat le rebord autour de la pierre”.
What does sertir mean in English?
verb
- 1
to crimp
- 2
to set, socket
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Enchâsser une pierre dans un chaton, dont on rabat le rebord autour de la pierre. 2. Assujettir une chose en rabattant les bords, ou par écrasement.
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 sertir
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- sertissant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- serti participle past
- sertis first-person indicative present
- sertit indicative present singular
- sertissons first-person indicative plural
- sertissez indicative plural present
- sertissent indicative plural present
- sertissais first-person imperfect indicative
- sertissait imperfect indicative singular
- sertissions first-person imperfect indicative
- sertissiez imperfect indicative plural
- sertissaient imperfect indicative plural
- sertîmes first-person historic indicative
- sertîtes historic indicative past
- sertirent historic indicative past
- sertirai first-person future indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce sertir?
- /sɛʁ.tiʁ/
- \sɛʁ.tiʁ\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to sertir
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is sertir in French?
sertir appears about once in every 17 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).