transformer
French, verb/tʁɑ̃s.fɔʁ.me/
transformer is spelled T-R-A-N-S-F-O-R-M-E-R (11 letters) and appears 21 times per million words in written French, the 3,602nd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Transformer is a French verb meaning “to transform” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Métamorphoser, donner à une personne ou à une chose une autre forme que celle qui lui est propre ou qu’elle…”.
What does transformer mean in English?
verb
- 1
to transform
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Métamorphoser, donner à une personne ou à une chose une autre forme que celle qui lui est propre ou qu’elle avait précédemment. 2. Changer en une forme équivalente. 3. Changer de forme. 4. Se déguiser, prendre plusieurs caractères, selon ses vues et ses intérêts, en parlant d’un humain.
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 transformer
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- transformant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- transformé participle past
- transforme first-person indicative present
- transformes indicative present second-person
- transformons first-person indicative plural
- transformez indicative plural present
- transforment indicative plural present
- transformais first-person imperfect indicative
- transformait imperfect indicative singular
- transformions first-person imperfect indicative
- transformiez imperfect indicative plural
- transformaient imperfect indicative plural
- transformai first-person historic indicative
- transformas historic indicative past
- transforma historic indicative past
- transformâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce transformer?
- /tʁɑ̃s.fɔʁ.me/
- \tʁɑ̃s.fɔʁ.me\
- [tʁɑ̃s.fɔʁ.me]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to transformer
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is transformer in French?
transformer appears 21 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).