chanter
French, verb/ʃɑ̃.te/
chanter is a French verb meaning “to sing” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Moduler sa voix sur plusieurs tons, suivre un morceau de musique vocale”.
What does chanter mean in English?
verb
- 1
to sing
chanter comme une casserole
- 2
to crow
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Moduler sa voix sur plusieurs tons, suivre un morceau de musique vocale. 2. Faire le cri ou le bruit mélodieux de son espèce, gazouiller. 3. Bruire harmonieusement. 4. Publier ; célébrer ; raconter.
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 chanter
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- chantant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- chanté participle past
- chante first-person indicative present
- ʃɑ̃t first-person indicative present
- chantes indicative present second-person
- chantons first-person indicative plural
- chantez indicative plural present
- chantent indicative plural present
- chantais first-person imperfect indicative
- chantait imperfect indicative singular
- chantions first-person imperfect indicative
- chantiez imperfect indicative plural
- chantaient imperfect indicative plural
- chantai first-person historic indicative
- chantas historic indicative past
- chanta historic indicative past
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce chanter?
- /ʃɑ̃.te/
- \ʃɑ̃.te\
- [ʃɑ̃.te]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to chanter
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is chanter in French?
chanter appears 22 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).