piquer
French, verb/pi.ke/
piquer is a French verb meaning “to prick; to sting” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Percer, entamer légèrement avec quelque chose de pointu ; enfoncer, faire pénétrer une pointe”.
What does piquer mean in English?
verb
- 1
to prick; to sting
- 2
to sting
Ça pique !
- 3
to put down, euthanise (an animal)
faire piquer son chien
- 4
colloquialto nick, pinch, steal
piquer quelque chose à quelqu'un
- 5
to pride oneself on; to like to think that one can do
- 6
to stitch together
- 7
to dive, descend rapidly (of birds or planes)
- 8
to dash (towards something)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Percer, entamer légèrement avec quelque chose de pointu ; enfoncer, faire pénétrer une pointe. 2. Faire de petits trous, à l’aide d’aiguilles. 3. Coudre, unir, faire avec du fil ou de la soie, sur deux ou plusieurs étoffes mises l’une sur l’autre, des points qui les traversent et qui les unissent. 4. S’emploie encore en des sens analogues dans plusieurs termes d’arts, de métiers, de jeux, etc.
verb: 1. Variante orthographique de piquer.
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 piquer
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- piquant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- piqué participle past
- pique first-person indicative present
- piques indicative present second-person
- piquons first-person indicative plural
- piquez indicative plural present
- piquent indicative plural present
- piquais first-person imperfect indicative
- piquait imperfect indicative singular
- piquions first-person imperfect indicative
- piquiez imperfect indicative plural
- piquaient imperfect indicative plural
- piquai first-person historic indicative
- piquas historic indicative past
- piqua historic indicative past
- piquâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce piquer?
- /pi.ke/
- \pi.ke\
- [pi.ke]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to piquer
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is piquer in French?
piquer appears 7.6 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).