rapporter
French, verb/ʁa.pɔʁ.te/
rapporter is a French verb meaning “to bring back (physically bring something back from where it came from)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Apporter une chose, la remettre au lieu où elle était”.
What does rapporter mean in English?
verb
- 1
to bring back (physically bring something back from where it came from)
Rapportez-moi quelque chose de vos voyages.
- 2
to retrieve
rapporter le gibier
- 3
to fetch
Vas-y, Rex ! Rapporte !
- 4
to take back (physically take something back to where it was)
Rapporte-le à la maison.
- 5
to take on (assume responsibility of)
rapporter un projet
- 6
to report, to tell about (give a report of something experienced)
Le Monde rapporte que[…]
- 7
to report (to tell an authority about a mishappening)
- 8
to bring in, to yield
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Apporter une chose, la remettre au lieu où elle était. 2. Apporter à son retour des choses d’un endroit donné, sans qu’on les y ait cependant portées. 3. Apporter dans un lieu où elles n’étaient pas et à quelqu’un à qui elles n’appartenaient pas auparavant, des choses qu’on a enlevées. 4. Apporter en contrepartie.
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 rapporter
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- rapportant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- rapporté participle past
- rapporte first-person indicative present
- rapportes indicative present second-person
- rapportons first-person indicative plural
- rapportez indicative plural present
- rapportent indicative plural present
- rapportais first-person imperfect indicative
- rapportait imperfect indicative singular
- rapportions first-person imperfect indicative
- rapportiez imperfect indicative plural
- rapportaient imperfect indicative plural
- rapportai first-person historic indicative
- rapportas historic indicative past
- rapporta historic indicative past
- rapportâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce rapporter?
- /ʁa.pɔʁ.te/
- \ʁa.pɔʁ.te\
- [ʁapɔʁte]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to rapporter
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is rapporter in French?
rapporter appears 9.5 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).