inscrire
French, verb/ɛ̃s.kʁiʁ/
inscrire is a French verb meaning “to inscribe (engrave)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Écrire le nom de quelqu’un, ou prendre note, faire mention de quelque chose sur un registre, sur une liste…”.
What does inscrire mean in English?
verb
- 1
to inscribe (engrave)
- 2
to inscribe; jot down (make notes on paper)
- 3
to inscribe
- 4
to inscribe, sign up (to a publication, annual pass etc.)
- 5
to sign up (for)
Je m'y suis inscrite
- 6
notch up, chalk up
il a inscrit deux buts
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Écrire le nom de quelqu’un, ou prendre note, faire mention de quelque chose sur un registre, sur une liste, etc. 2. Mettre une inscription. 3. Tracer, dans l’intérieur d’une figure géométrique, une autre figure qui en touche le contour intérieurement. 4. Laisser un souvenir inoubliable ou une trace visible.
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 inscrire
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- inscrivant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- inscrit participle past
- inscris first-person indicative present
- inscrivons first-person indicative plural
- inscrivez indicative plural present
- inscrivent indicative plural present
- inscrivais first-person imperfect indicative
- inscrivait imperfect indicative singular
- inscrivions first-person imperfect indicative
- inscriviez imperfect indicative plural
- inscrivaient imperfect indicative plural
- inscrivis first-person historic indicative
- inscrivit historic indicative past
- inscrivîmes first-person historic indicative
- inscrivîtes historic indicative past
- inscrivirent historic indicative past
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce inscrire?
- /ɛ̃s.kʁiʁ/
- \ɛ̃s.kʁiʁ\
- [ɛ̃s.kʁiʁ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to inscrire
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is inscrire in French?
inscrire appears 21 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).