cadrer
French, verb/ka.dʁe/
cadrer is a French verb meaning “to fit (go well together)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “S’ajuster à, avoir de la convenance, du rapport”.
What does cadrer mean in English?
verb
- 1
to fit (go well together)
- 2
to frame (put into the field of vision)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. S’ajuster à, avoir de la convenance, du rapport.
verb: 1. Délimiter le champ d’une caméra ou d’un appareil photographique. 2. Mettre dans le champ d’une caméra, d’un appareil photographique ou de tout instrument d’optique.
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 cadrer
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- cadrant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- cadré participle past
- cadre first-person indicative present
- cadres indicative present second-person
- cadrons first-person indicative plural
- cadrez indicative plural present
- cadrent indicative plural present
- cadrais first-person imperfect indicative
- cadrait imperfect indicative singular
- cadrions first-person imperfect indicative
- cadriez imperfect indicative plural
- cadraient imperfect indicative plural
- cadrai first-person historic indicative
- cadras historic indicative past
- cadra historic indicative past
- cadrâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce cadrer?
- /ka.dʁe/
- /kɑ.dʁe/
- \kɑ.dʁe\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is cadrer in French?
cadrer appears about once in every 1 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).