fonder
French, verb/fɔ̃.de/
fonder is a French verb meaning “to found” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Asseoir un bâtiment, un édifice sur des fondements”.
What does fonder mean in English?
verb
- 1
to found
Son vœu le plus cher est de fonder un foyer.
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Asseoir un bâtiment, un édifice sur des fondements. 2. … 3. … 4. Établir.
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 fonder
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- fondant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- fondé participle past
- fonde first-person indicative present
- fondes indicative present second-person
- fondons first-person indicative plural
- fondez indicative plural present
- fondent indicative plural present
- fondais first-person imperfect indicative
- fondait imperfect indicative singular
- fondions first-person imperfect indicative
- fondiez imperfect indicative plural
- fondaient imperfect indicative plural
- fondai first-person historic indicative
- fondas historic indicative past
- fonda historic indicative past
- fondâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce fonder?
- /fɔ̃.de/
- \fɔ̃.de\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to fonder
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is fonder in French?
fonder appears 7.9 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).