emprisonner
French, verb/ɑ̃.pʁi.zɔ.ne/
emprisonner is a French verb meaning “to imprison” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Mettre en prison”.
What does emprisonner mean in English?
verb
- 1
to imprison
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Mettre en prison. 2. Retenir comme dans une prison.
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 emprisonner
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- emprisonnant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- emprisonné participle past
- emprisonne first-person indicative present
- emprisonnes indicative present second-person
- emprisonnons first-person indicative plural
- emprisonnez indicative plural present
- emprisonnent indicative plural present
- emprisonnais first-person imperfect indicative
- emprisonnait imperfect indicative singular
- emprisonnions first-person imperfect indicative
- emprisonniez imperfect indicative plural
- emprisonnaient imperfect indicative plural
- emprisonnai first-person historic indicative
- emprisonnas historic indicative past
- emprisonna historic indicative past
- emprisonnâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce emprisonner?
- /ɑ̃.pʁi.zɔ.ne/
- \ɑ̃.pʁi.zɔ.ne\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to emprisonner
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is emprisonner in French?
emprisonner appears 1.4 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).