sonner
French, verb/sɔ.ne/
sonner is spelled S-O-N-N-E-R (6 letters) and appears 5.9 times per million words in written French, the 9,981st most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Sonner is a French verb meaning “to sound” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Rendre un son”.
What does sonner mean in English?
verb
- 1
to sound
- 2
to ring
Sonner la cloche.
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Rendre un son. 2. Faire rendre des sons à des instruments à vent, comme le cor, la trompette, etc. 3. Faire une sonnerie de cloches. 4. Exprimer pleinement le son d’une lettre dans la prononciation, prononcer.
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 sonner
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- sonnant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- sonné participle past
- sonne first-person indicative present
- sonnes indicative present second-person
- sonnons first-person indicative plural
- sonnez indicative plural present
- sonnent indicative plural present
- sonnais first-person imperfect indicative
- sonnait imperfect indicative singular
- sonnions first-person imperfect indicative
- sonniez imperfect indicative plural
- sonnaient imperfect indicative plural
- sonnai first-person historic indicative
- sonnas historic indicative past
- sonna historic indicative past
- sonnâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce sonner?
- /sɔ.ne/
- \sɔ.ne\
- [so.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 sonner
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is sonner in French?
sonner appears 5.9 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).