gérer
French, verb/ʒe.ʁe/
gérer is a French verb meaning “to manage” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Administrer pour le compte d’un autre”.
What does gérer mean in English?
verb
- 1
to manage
- 2
slangto rule, to rock (to excel)
J'ai réussi avec grande distinction. - Excellent! Tu gères!
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Administrer pour le compte d’un autre. 2. Administrer ; diriger ; manager ; s’occuper de. 3. S’en occuper seul. 4. Venir à bout d’un problème, d’une crise.
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 gérer
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- gérant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- géré participle past
- gère first-person indicative present
- gères indicative present second-person
- gérons first-person indicative plural
- gérez indicative plural present
- gèrent indicative plural present
- gérais first-person imperfect indicative
- gérait imperfect indicative singular
- gérions first-person imperfect indicative
- gériez imperfect indicative plural
- géraient imperfect indicative plural
- gérai first-person historic indicative
- géras historic indicative past
- géra historic indicative past
- gérâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce gérer?
- /ʒe.ʁe/
- \ʒe.ʁe\
- [ʒe.ʁe]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to gérer
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is gérer in French?
gérer appears 46 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).