tronquer
French, verb/tʁɔ̃.ke/
tronquer is spelled T-R-O-N-Q-U-E-R (8 letters) and appears about once in every 10 million words in written French, the 105,879th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Tronquer is a French verb meaning “to truncate (shorten something as if by cutting off part of it)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Retrancher, couper une partie de quelque chose”.
What does tronquer mean in English?
verb
- 1
to truncate (shorten something as if by cutting off part of it)
- 2
to shorten, cut
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Retrancher, couper une partie de quelque chose. 2. Se dit aussi en parlant des ouvrages de l’esprit.
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 tronquer
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- tronquant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- tronqué participle past
- tronque first-person indicative present
- tronques indicative present second-person
- tronquons first-person indicative plural
- tronquez indicative plural present
- tronquent indicative plural present
- tronquais first-person imperfect indicative
- tronquait imperfect indicative singular
- tronquions first-person imperfect indicative
- tronquiez imperfect indicative plural
- tronquaient imperfect indicative plural
- tronquai first-person historic indicative
- tronquas historic indicative past
- tronqua historic indicative past
- tronquâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce tronquer?
- /tʁɔ̃.ke/
- \tʁɔ̃.ke\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to tronquer
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is tronquer in French?
tronquer appears about once in every 10 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).