tolérer
French, verb/tɔ.le.ʁe/
tolérer is spelled T-O-L-É-R-E-R (7 letters) and appears 3.5 times per million words in written French, the 14,223rd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Tolérer is a French verb meaning “to tolerate” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Supporter”.
What does tolérer mean in English?
verb
- 1
to tolerate
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Supporter. 2. Ne pas réprimer certains abus. 3. Supporter chez autrui ce que l’on n’approuve pas. 4. Se dit dans un sens analogue en parlant des personnes.
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 tolérer
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- tolérant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- toléré participle past
- tolère first-person indicative present
- tolères indicative present second-person
- tolérons first-person indicative plural
- tolérez indicative plural present
- tolèrent indicative plural present
- tolérais first-person imperfect indicative
- tolérait imperfect indicative singular
- tolérions first-person imperfect indicative
- tolériez imperfect indicative plural
- toléraient imperfect indicative plural
- tolérai first-person historic indicative
- toléras historic indicative past
- toléra historic indicative past
- tolérâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce tolérer?
- /tɔ.le.ʁe/
- \tɔ.le.ʁe\
- [tɔ.le.ʁe]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to tolérer
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is tolérer in French?
tolérer appears 3.5 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).