manier
French, verb/ma.nje/
manier is a French verb meaning “to handle, manipulate, wield (an object)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Prendre, tâter, toucher avec la main, pour s'en servir, pour évaluer ou pour déplacer”.
What does manier mean in English?
verb
- 1
to handle, manipulate, wield (an object)
- 2
to use (software)
- 3
to knead
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Prendre, tâter, toucher avec la main, pour s'en servir, pour évaluer ou pour déplacer. 2. Mettre en œuvre la matière propre à un ouvrage. 3. Se servir de. 4. Tourner ou gouverner à son gré, en parlant d'une personne, de son esprit ou de son caractère.
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 manier
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- maniant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- manié participle past
- manie first-person indicative present
- manies indicative present second-person
- manions first-person indicative plural
- maniez indicative plural present
- manient indicative plural present
- maniais first-person imperfect indicative
- maniait imperfect indicative singular
- maniions first-person imperfect indicative
- maniiez imperfect indicative plural
- maniaient imperfect indicative plural
- maniai first-person historic indicative
- manias historic indicative past
- mania historic indicative past
- maniâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce manier?
- /ma.nje/
- \ma.nje\
- \ma.ɲe\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to manier
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is manier in French?
manier appears 2.6 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).