fumer
French, verb/fy.me/
fumer is a French verb meaning “to smoke” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Jeter de la fumée”.
What does fumer mean in English?
verb
- 1
to smoke
- 2
to emit smoke
- 3
to steam
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Jeter de la fumée. 2. Exhaler de la vapeur, en parlant d’un corps très chaud. 3. Avoir de la colère, du dépit, de l’impatience, etc. 4. Soumettre des viandes à l’action de la fumée plus ou moins longtemps, pour les sécher et les conserver.
verb: 1. Amender une terre en y épandant du fumier ou des produits chimiques.
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 fumer
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- fumant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- fumé participle past
- fume first-person indicative present
- fumes indicative present second-person
- fumons first-person indicative plural
- fumez indicative plural present
- fument indicative plural present
- fumais first-person imperfect indicative
- fumait imperfect indicative singular
- fumions first-person imperfect indicative
- fumiez imperfect indicative plural
- fumaient imperfect indicative plural
- fumai first-person historic indicative
- fumas historic indicative past
- fuma historic indicative past
- fumâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce fumer?
- /fy.me/
- \fy.me\
- [fy.me]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to fumer
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is fumer in French?
fumer appears 17 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).