vanter
French, verb/vɑ̃.te/
vanter is spelled V-A-N-T-E-R (6 letters) and appears 4.5 times per million words in written French, the 12,122nd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Vanter is a French verb meaning “to praise, to vaunt” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Louer, exalter”.
What does vanter mean in English?
verb
- 1
to praise, to vaunt
- 2
to boast, brag
Tu te vantes beaucoup trop !
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Louer, exalter. 2. S’attribuer des qualités, des mérites que l’on n’a pas. 3. Se glorifier, se faire honneur de. 4. Se faire fort de, prétendre être capable de.
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 vanter
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- vantant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- vanté participle past
- vante first-person indicative present
- vantes indicative present second-person
- vantons first-person indicative plural
- vantez indicative plural present
- vantent indicative plural present
- vantais first-person imperfect indicative
- vantait imperfect indicative singular
- vantions first-person imperfect indicative
- vantiez imperfect indicative plural
- vantaient imperfect indicative plural
- vantai first-person historic indicative
- vantas historic indicative past
- vanta historic indicative past
- vantâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce vanter?
- /vɑ̃.te/
- \vɑ̃.te\
- [vɑ̃.te]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to vanter
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is vanter in French?
vanter appears 4.5 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).