vanner
French, verb/va.ne/
vanner is spelled V-A-N-N-E-R (6 letters) and appears about once in every 4 million words in written French, the 68,150th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Vanner is a French verb meaning “to winnow” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Nettoyer les grains au moyen d’un van ou en les lançant en l'air”.
What does vanner mean in English?
verb
- 1
to winnow
- 2
to shake about, jolt, jostle
- 3
to scrutinise (analyse thoroughly)
- 4
colloquialto knacker, tire out, flush
- 5
to stir (a sauce or soup) to avoid the formation of a skin
verb
- 1
to provide [a river] with sluice gates or floodgates
verb
- 1
to kid, joke, crack jokes
- 2
colloquialto kid, tease, rib someone
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Nettoyer les grains au moyen d’un van ou en les lançant en l'air. 2. Épuiser, exténuer, claquer. 3. Touiller avec une cuillère en bois ou agiter la casserole où se trouve une sauce en train de refroidir. L’objectif est d’éviter la formation d’une peau. 4. Se moquer de quelqu’un.
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 vanner
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- vannant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- vanné participle past
- vanne first-person indicative present
- vannes indicative present second-person
- vannons first-person indicative plural
- vannez indicative plural present
- vannent indicative plural present
- vannais first-person imperfect indicative
- vannait imperfect indicative singular
- vannions first-person imperfect indicative
- vanniez imperfect indicative plural
- vannaient imperfect indicative plural
- vannai first-person historic indicative
- vannas historic indicative past
- vanna historic indicative past
- vannâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce vanner?
- /va.ne/
- \va.ne\
- [va.ne]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to vanner
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is vanner in French?
vanner appears about once in every 4 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).