yaourter
French, verb/ja.uʁ.te/
yaourter is spelled Y-A-O-U-R-T-E-R (8 letters). Yaourter is a French verb meaning “to speak or sing poorly in a foreign language, usually English, using misheard words” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Parler ou chanter dans une langue étrangère (habituellement en anglais), avec beaucoup d’erreurs dues à une…”.
What does yaourter mean in English?
verb
- 1
to speak or sing poorly in a foreign language, usually English, using misheard words
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Parler ou chanter dans une langue étrangère (habituellement en anglais), avec beaucoup d’erreurs dues à une mauvaise compréhension de ce qu’on a entendu et qu’on veut répéter.
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 yaourter
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- yaourtant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- yaourté participle past
- yaourte first-person indicative present
- yaourtes indicative present second-person
- yaourtons first-person indicative plural
- yaourtez indicative plural present
- yaourtent indicative plural present
- yaourtais first-person imperfect indicative
- yaourtait imperfect indicative singular
- yaourtions first-person imperfect indicative
- yaourtiez imperfect indicative plural
- yaourtaient imperfect indicative plural
- yaourtai first-person historic indicative
- yaourtas historic indicative past
- yaourta historic indicative past
- yaourtâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce yaourter?
- /ja.uʁ.te/
- \ja.uʁ.te\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.