mener
French, verb/mə.ne/
mener is a French verb meaning “to lead, to take” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Conduire quelqu’un vers un être ou une chose”.
What does mener mean in English?
verb
- 1
to lead, to take
Le bus va nous mener au château.
- 2
to lead, to run, to take charge
Louis va mener ce cours.
- 3
to lead, to be leading, to be in the lead
L'équipe bleue mène 2 à 0.
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Conduire quelqu’un vers un être ou une chose. 2. Aller, se diriger vers, en parlant d’un chemin, d’une route. 3. Conduire par force en quelque endroit. 4. Diriger, entraîner à sa suite.
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 mener
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- menant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- mené participle past
- mène first-person indicative present
- mènes indicative present second-person
- menons first-person indicative plural
- menez indicative plural present
- mènent indicative plural present
- menais first-person imperfect indicative
- menait imperfect indicative singular
- menions first-person imperfect indicative
- meniez imperfect indicative plural
- menaient imperfect indicative plural
- menai first-person historic indicative
- menas historic indicative past
- mena historic indicative past
- menâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce mener?
- /mə.ne/
- \mə.ne\
- \mne\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to mener
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is mener in French?
mener appears 30 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).