traverser
French, verb/tʁa.vɛʁ.se/
traverser is spelled T-R-A-V-E-R-S-E-R (9 letters) and appears 18 times per million words in written French, the 4,224th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Traverser is a French verb meaning “to cross, to go across” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Passer à travers, d’un côté à l’autre”.
What does traverser mean in English?
verb
- 1
to cross, to go across
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Passer à travers, d’un côté à l’autre. 2. Changer de côté dans une rue, sur une route. 3. Percer de part en part. 4. Être au travers de quelque chose.
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 traverser
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- traversant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- traversé participle past
- traverse first-person indicative present
- traverses indicative present second-person
- traversons first-person indicative plural
- traversez indicative plural present
- traversent indicative plural present
- traversais first-person imperfect indicative
- traversait imperfect indicative singular
- traversions first-person imperfect indicative
- traversiez imperfect indicative plural
- traversaient imperfect indicative plural
- traversai first-person historic indicative
- traversas historic indicative past
- traversa historic indicative past
- traversâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce traverser?
- /tʁa.vɛʁ.se/
- \tʁa.vɛʁ.se\
- [tʁa.vɛʁ.se]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to traverser
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is traverser in French?
traverser appears 18 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).