œuvrer
French, verb/œ.vʁe/
œuvrer is spelled Œ-U-V-R-E-R (6 letters) and appears 1.2 times per million words in written French, the 28,091st most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Œuvrer is a French verb meaning “to work” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Travailler”.
What does œuvrer mean in English?
verb
- 1
to work
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Travailler. 2. Agir pour quelque chose d’important, de noble.
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 œuvrer
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- œuvrant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- œuvré participle past
- œuvre first-person indicative present
- œuvres indicative present second-person
- œuvrons first-person indicative plural
- œuvrez indicative plural present
- œuvrent indicative plural present
- œuvrais first-person imperfect indicative
- œuvrait imperfect indicative singular
- œuvrions first-person imperfect indicative
- œuvriez imperfect indicative plural
- œuvraient imperfect indicative plural
- œuvrai first-person historic indicative
- œuvras historic indicative past
- œuvra historic indicative past
- œuvrâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce œuvrer?
- /œ.vʁe/
- \œ.vʁe\
- [œvʁe]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to œuvrer
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is œuvrer in French?
œuvrer appears 1.2 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).