soudoyer
French, verb/su.dwa.je/
soudoyer is spelled S-O-U-D-O-Y-E-R (8 letters) and appears about once in every 3 million words in written French, the 61,385th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Soudoyer is a French verb meaning “to bribe” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Entretenir des gens de guerre, leur payer une solde”.
What does soudoyer mean in English?
verb
- 1
to bribe
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Homme d’armes, mercenaire.
verb: 1. Entretenir des gens de guerre, leur payer une solde. 2. S’assurer le concours de certaines gens, à prix d’argent.
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 soudoyer
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- soudoyant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- soudoyé participle past
- soudoie first-person indicative present
- soudoies indicative present second-person
- soudoyons first-person indicative plural
- soudoyez indicative plural present
- soudoient indicative plural present
- soudoyais first-person imperfect indicative
- soudoyait imperfect indicative singular
- soudoyions first-person imperfect indicative
- soudoyiez imperfect indicative plural
- soudoyaient imperfect indicative plural
- soudoyai first-person historic indicative
- soudoyas historic indicative past
- soudoya historic indicative past
- soudoyâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce soudoyer?
- /su.dwa.je/
- \su.dwa.je\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to soudoyer
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is soudoyer in French?
soudoyer appears about once in every 3 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).