menacer
French, verb/mə.na.se/
menacer is a French verb meaning “to threaten” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Se proposer intempestivement de faire”.
What does menacer mean in English?
verb
- 1
to threaten
- 2
to endanger, to jeopardise
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Se proposer intempestivement de faire. 2. Risquer de se produire. → voir menacer ruine 3. Éclater prochainement (pour un phénomène météorologique). 4. Déclarer la guerre dans un bref délai.
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 menacer
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- menaçant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- menacé participle past
- menace first-person indicative present
- menaces indicative present second-person
- menaçons first-person indicative plural
- menacez indicative plural present
- menacent indicative plural present
- menaçais first-person imperfect indicative
- menaçait imperfect indicative singular
- menacions first-person imperfect indicative
- menaciez imperfect indicative plural
- menaçaient imperfect indicative plural
- menaçai first-person historic indicative
- menaças historic indicative past
- menaça historic indicative past
- menaçâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce menacer?
- /mə.na.se/
- \mə.na.se\
- [mə.na.se]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to menacer
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is menacer in French?
menacer appears 5.6 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).