vider
French, verb/vi.de/
vider is spelled V-I-D-E-R (5 letters) and appears 7.8 times per million words in written French, the 8,090th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Vider is a French verb meaning “to empty, to empty out” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Retirer d’un récipient ou de quelque lieu ce qui y était contenu ; rendre vide”.
What does vider mean in English?
verb
- 1
to empty, to empty out
Il faut vider la poubelle.
- 2
to gut (e.g. a fish)
Il a vidé le poisson lui-même.
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Retirer d’un récipient ou de quelque lieu ce qui y était contenu ; rendre vide. 2. Finir, terminer, boire le liquide contenu dedans. 3. Retirer les viscères, les entrailles d’un poisson, d’une volaille, ou d’un autre corps mort.→ voir prêt-à-cuire 4. Purger.
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 vider
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- vidant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- vidé participle past
- vide first-person indicative present
- vides indicative present second-person
- vidons first-person indicative plural
- videz indicative plural present
- vident indicative plural present
- vidais first-person imperfect indicative
- vidait imperfect indicative singular
- vidions first-person imperfect indicative
- vidiez imperfect indicative plural
- vidaient imperfect indicative plural
- vidai first-person historic indicative
- vidas historic indicative past
- vida historic indicative past
- vidâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce vider?
- /vi.de/
- \vi.de\
- [vi.de]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to vider
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is vider in French?
vider appears 7.8 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).