assiéger
French, verb/a.sje.ʒe/
assiéger is a French verb meaning “to besiege; to lay siege to” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Action de mener un siège, d’encercler une ville, une citadelle”.
What does assiéger mean in English?
verb
- 1
to besiege; to lay siege to
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Action de mener un siège, d’encercler une ville, une citadelle. 2. Se presser autour. 3. Importuner, poursuivre.
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 assiéger
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- assiégeant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- assiégé participle past
- assiège first-person indicative present
- assièges indicative present second-person
- assiégeons first-person indicative plural
- assiégez indicative plural present
- assiègent indicative plural present
- assiégeais first-person imperfect indicative
- assiégeait imperfect indicative singular
- assiégions first-person imperfect indicative
- assiégiez imperfect indicative plural
- assiégeaient imperfect indicative plural
- assiégeai first-person historic indicative
- assiégeas historic indicative past
- assiégea historic indicative past
- assiégeâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce assiéger?
- /a.sje.ʒe/
- \a.sje.ʒe\
- [a.sje.ʒe]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to assiéger
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is assiéger in French?
assiéger 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).