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lever

French, noun/lə.ve/

lever is a French masculine noun meaning “the act of getting up in the morning” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Action de se lever”.

What does lever mean in English?

verb

  1. 1

    to raise, lift

  2. 2

    to rise, stand up

  3. 3

    to rise, come up

    Le Soleil se lève à l'est et se couche à l'ouest.

  4. 4

    to get up (out of bed)

    Je me lève, je me lave.

  5. 5

    to clear, lift

noun

  1. 1

    masculinethe act of getting up in the morning

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

How French dictionaries define it

verb: 1. Faire qu’une chose soit plus haut qu’elle n’était. 2. Redresser une personne ou une chose qui était dans une position horizontale. 3. Porter. 4. Aider quelqu’un à sortir du lit et à s’habiller.

noun: 1. Action de se lever. 2. Résultat du tracé d’un plan. 3. Action de lever le rideau au théâtre ou tout autre chose.

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 lever

  • avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
  • levant gerund participle present
  • ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
  • levé participle past
  • lève first-person indicative present
  • lèves indicative present second-person
  • levons first-person indicative plural
  • levez indicative plural present
  • lèvent indicative plural present
  • levais first-person imperfect indicative
  • levait imperfect indicative singular
  • levions first-person imperfect indicative
  • leviez imperfect indicative plural
  • levaient imperfect indicative plural
  • levai first-person historic indicative
  • levas historic indicative past
  • leva historic indicative past
  • levâmes first-person historic indicative

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

How do you pronounce lever?

  • /lə.ve/
  • \lə.ve\
  • \lve\

Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

English words that translate to lever

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

How common is lever in French?

lever appears 35 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).