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changer

French, verb/ʃɑ̃.ʒe/

changer is a French verb meaning “to exchange (something)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Devenir autre”.

What does changer mean in English?

verb

  1. 1

    to exchange (something)

  2. 2

    to change (money, a job, one's circumstances etc.)

  3. 3

    to change, alter (something en into)

  4. 4

    to change (a diaper)

  5. 5

    to change

  6. 6

    to change (one's clothes), get changed

Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How French dictionaries define it

verb: 1. Devenir autre. 2. Avoir de l’inconstance dans ses projets, ses goûts, ses affections, en parlant d’une personne. 3. Échanger une chose contre une autre. 4. Remplacer une personne ou une chose par une autre.

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 changer

  • avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
  • changeant gerund participle present
  • ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
  • changé participle past
  • change first-person indicative present
  • changes indicative present second-person
  • changeons first-person indicative plural
  • changez indicative plural present
  • changent indicative plural present
  • changeais first-person imperfect indicative
  • changeait imperfect indicative singular
  • changions first-person imperfect indicative
  • changiez imperfect indicative plural
  • changeaient imperfect indicative plural
  • changeai first-person historic indicative
  • changeas historic indicative past
  • changea historic indicative past
  • changeâmes first-person historic indicative

Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce changer?

  • /ʃɑ̃.ʒe/
  • \ʃɑ̃.ʒe\
  • [ʃɑ̃.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 changer

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is changer in French?

changer appears 129 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).