tronçonner
French, verb\tʁɔ̃.sɔ.ne\
tronçonner is spelled T-R-O-N-Ç-O-N-N-E-R (10 letters) and appears about once in every 11 million words in written French, the 108,277th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Tronçonner is a French verb meaning “to slice, to slice up” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Couper quelque chose par tronçons”.
What does tronçonner mean in English?
verb
- 1
to slice, to slice up
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Couper quelque chose par tronçons. 2. Couper un arbre ou un arbuste, à la tronçonneuse.
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 tronçonner
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- tronçonnant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- tronçonné participle past
- tronçonne first-person indicative present
- tronçonnes indicative present second-person
- tronçonnons first-person indicative plural
- tronçonnez indicative plural present
- tronçonnent indicative plural present
- tronçonnais first-person imperfect indicative
- tronçonnait imperfect indicative singular
- tronçonnions first-person imperfect indicative
- tronçonniez imperfect indicative plural
- tronçonnaient imperfect indicative plural
- tronçonnai first-person historic indicative
- tronçonnas historic indicative past
- tronçonna historic indicative past
- tronçonnâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce tronçonner?
- \tʁɔ̃.sɔ.ne\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is tronçonner in French?
tronçonner appears about once in every 11 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).