tonner
French, verb/tɔ.ne/
tonner is spelled T-O-N-N-E-R (6 letters) and appears about once in every 6 million words in written French, the 81,899th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Tonner is a French verb meaning “to thunder” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Faire éclater le tonnerre”.
What does tonner mean in English?
verb
- 1
to thunder
- 2
to thunder (to make a noise like thunder)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Faire éclater le tonnerre. 2. Faire entendre un bruit retentissant comme le tonnerre. 3. Parler contre quelqu’un ou quelque chose avec beaucoup de force et de véhémence.
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 tonner
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- tonnant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- tonné participle past
- tonne first-person indicative present
- tonnes indicative present second-person
- tonnons first-person indicative plural
- tonnez indicative plural present
- tonnent indicative plural present
- tonnais first-person imperfect indicative
- tonnait imperfect indicative singular
- tonnions first-person imperfect indicative
- tonniez imperfect indicative plural
- tonnaient imperfect indicative plural
- tonnai first-person historic indicative
- tonnas historic indicative past
- tonna historic indicative past
- tonnâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce tonner?
- /tɔ.ne/
- \tɔ.ne\
- [to.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 tonner
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is tonner in French?
tonner appears about once in every 6 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).