viner
French, verb/vi.ne/
viner is spelled V-I-N-E-R (5 letters) and appears about once in every 15 million words in written French, the 126,551st most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Viner is a French verb meaning “to add alcohol to a wine to conserve it, in order to transport it without it deteriorating; fortify” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Ajouter de l’alcool à un vin pour le conserver, pour pouvoir le transporter sans qu’il s’altère”.
What does viner mean in English?
verb
- 1
to add alcohol to a wine to conserve it, in order to transport it without it deteriorating; fortify
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Ajouter de l’alcool à un vin pour le conserver, pour pouvoir le transporter sans qu’il s’altère.
verb: 1. Utiliser Vine pour poster des vidéos de quelques secondes.
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 viner
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- vinant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- viné participle past
- vine first-person indicative present
- vines indicative present second-person
- vinons first-person indicative plural
- vinez indicative plural present
- vinent indicative plural present
- vinais first-person imperfect indicative
- vinait imperfect indicative singular
- vinions first-person imperfect indicative
- viniez imperfect indicative plural
- vinaient imperfect indicative plural
- vinai first-person historic indicative
- vinas historic indicative past
- vina historic indicative past
- vinâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce viner?
- /vi.ne/
- \vi.ne\
- [vi.ne]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is viner in French?
viner appears about once in every 15 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).