voler
French, verb/vɔ.le/
voler is spelled V-O-L-E-R (5 letters) and appears 26 times per million words in written French, the 3,067th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Voler is a French verb meaning “to fly through the air” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Se maintenir dans les airs en battant des ailes”.
What does voler mean in English?
verb
- 1
to fly through the air
ne pas voler haut
- 2
to pursue flying
- 3
to scarper, flee
- 4
to steal, rob
donner c'est donner, reprendre c'est voler
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Se maintenir dans les airs en battant des ailes. 2. Se mouvoir dans l’air, en parlant des aéronefs. 3. Piloter un avion. 4. Se mouvoir dans l’air avec une grande vitesse.
verb: 1. S’approprier le bien d’autrui ; prendre quelque chose à quelqu’un sans son accord ; dérober. 2. Prendre à l’improviste, sans que la personne concernée donne son consentement à l’action effectuée. 3. Plagier. 4. Usurper.
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 voler
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- volant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- volé participle past
- vole first-person indicative present
- voles indicative present second-person
- volons first-person indicative plural
- volez indicative plural present
- volent indicative plural present
- volais first-person imperfect indicative
- volait imperfect indicative singular
- volions first-person imperfect indicative
- voliez imperfect indicative plural
- volaient imperfect indicative plural
- volai first-person historic indicative
- volas historic indicative past
- vola historic indicative past
- volâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce voler?
- /vɔ.le/
- \vɔ.le\
- [vɔ.le]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to voler
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is voler in French?
voler appears 26 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).