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figer

French, verb/fi.ʒe/

figer is a French verb meaning “to freeze” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Congeler, coaguler, condenser par le froid, par le refroidissement. Il se dit surtout en parlant des huiles”.

What does figer mean in English?

verb

  1. 1

    to freeze

  2. 2

    to fix

  3. 3

    to congeal; to thicken; to clot

  4. 4

    to scare, frighten

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

How French dictionaries define it

verb: 1. Congeler, coaguler, condenser par le froid, par le refroidissement. Il se dit surtout en parlant des huiles. 2. Fixer ; rendre immobile ou invariable. 3. Immobiliser, paralyser, en parlant des personnes qu’un sentiment de peur, de surprise, de timidité cloue sur place.

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 figer

  • avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
  • figeant gerund participle present
  • ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
  • figé participle past
  • fige first-person indicative present
  • figes indicative present second-person
  • figeons first-person indicative plural
  • figez indicative plural present
  • figent indicative plural present
  • figeais first-person imperfect indicative
  • figeait imperfect indicative singular
  • figions first-person imperfect indicative
  • figiez imperfect indicative plural
  • figeaient imperfect indicative plural
  • figeai first-person historic indicative
  • figeas historic indicative past
  • figea historic indicative past
  • figeâmes first-person historic indicative

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

How do you pronounce figer?

  • /fi.ʒe/
  • \fi.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 figer

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

How common is figer in French?

figer 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).