trembler
French, verb/tʁɑ̃.ble/
trembler is spelled T-R-E-M-B-L-E-R (8 letters) and appears 4.2 times per million words in written French, the 12,736th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Trembler is a French verb meaning “to tremble, shake” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Être agité de petites et fréquentes secousses”.
What does trembler mean in English?
verb
- 1
to tremble, shake
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Être agité de petites et fréquentes secousses. 2. Craindre, appréhender, avoir grand peur. 3. Triller.
verb: 1. Être dans le frisson de …
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 trembler
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- tremblant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- tremblé participle past
- tremble first-person indicative present
- trembles indicative present second-person
- tremblons first-person indicative plural
- tremblez indicative plural present
- tremblent indicative plural present
- tremblais first-person imperfect indicative
- tremblait imperfect indicative singular
- tremblions first-person imperfect indicative
- trembliez imperfect indicative plural
- tremblaient imperfect indicative plural
- tremblai first-person historic indicative
- tremblas historic indicative past
- trembla historic indicative past
- tremblâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce trembler?
- /tʁɑ̃.ble/
- \tʁɑ̃.ble\
- [tʁɑ̃.ble]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to trembler
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is trembler in French?
trembler appears 4.2 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).