vader
French, verb/va.de/
vader is spelled V-A-D-E-R (5 letters) and appears about once in every 3 million words in written French, the 58,502nd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Vader is a French verb meaning “to go” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “S’esquiver, s’évader, partir à la sourdine”.
What does vader mean in English?
verb
- 1
to go
Il vadait dans la prairie avec son pirogue et il attendait des pièges.
verb
- 1
Switzerlandto get away
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. S’esquiver, s’évader, partir à la sourdine. 2. Aller.
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 vader
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- vadant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- vadé participle past
- vade first-person indicative present
- vades indicative present second-person
- vadons first-person indicative plural
- vadez indicative plural present
- vadent indicative plural present
- vadais first-person imperfect indicative
- vadait imperfect indicative singular
- vadions first-person imperfect indicative
- vadiez imperfect indicative plural
- vadaient imperfect indicative plural
- vadai first-person historic indicative
- vadas historic indicative past
- vada historic indicative past
- vadâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce vader?
- /va.de/
- [va.de]
- \va.de\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is vader in French?
vader appears about once in every 3 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).