sombrer
French, verb/sɔ̃.bʁe/
sombrer is spelled S-O-M-B-R-E-R (7 letters) and appears 2.8 times per million words in written French, the 16,835th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Sombrer is a French verb meaning “to sink” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Être submergé, couler par l’effet soit d’un coup de vent, soit d’une voie d’eau”.
What does sombrer mean in English?
verb
- 1
to sink
- 2
to sink (+dans; into)
sombrer dans l'alcoolisme
- 3
to whittle away (disappear)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Être submergé, couler par l’effet soit d’un coup de vent, soit d’une voie d’eau. 2. Être englouti, se perdre, disparaître. 3. S'enliser.
verb: 1. Amortir, couvrir les sons.
verb: 1. Donner un premier labour à la vigne, aux jachères.
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 sombrer
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- sombrant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- sombré participle past
- sombre first-person indicative present
- sombres indicative present second-person
- sombrons first-person indicative plural
- sombrez indicative plural present
- sombrent indicative plural present
- sombrais first-person imperfect indicative
- sombrait imperfect indicative singular
- sombrions first-person imperfect indicative
- sombriez imperfect indicative plural
- sombraient imperfect indicative plural
- sombrai first-person historic indicative
- sombras historic indicative past
- sombra historic indicative past
- sombrâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce sombrer?
- /sɔ̃.bʁe/
- \sɔ̃.bʁe\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to sombrer
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is sombrer in French?
sombrer appears 2.8 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).