vénérer
French, verb/ve.ne.ʁe/
vénérer is spelled V-É-N-É-R-E-R (7 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written French, the 39,702nd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Vénérer is a French verb meaning “to worship, venerate, revere” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Rendre un culte à un dieu, à un saint ou à des choses saintes ou sacrées ; adorer”.
What does vénérer mean in English?
verb
- 1
to worship, venerate, revere
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Rendre un culte à un dieu, à un saint ou à des choses saintes ou sacrées ; adorer. 2. Avoir un attachement ou un respect profond pour une personne.
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 vénérer
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- vénérant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- vénéré participle past
- vénère first-person indicative present
- vénères indicative present second-person
- vénérons first-person indicative plural
- vénérez indicative plural present
- vénèrent indicative plural present
- vénérais first-person imperfect indicative
- vénérait imperfect indicative singular
- vénérions first-person imperfect indicative
- vénériez imperfect indicative plural
- vénéraient imperfect indicative plural
- vénérai first-person historic indicative
- vénéras historic indicative past
- vénéra historic indicative past
- vénérâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce vénérer?
- /ve.ne.ʁe/
- \ve.ne.ʁe\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to vénérer
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is vénérer in French?
vénérer appears about once in every 2 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).