regagner
French, verb/ʁə.ɡa.ɲe/
regagner is a French verb meaning “to regain, to recover (something lost)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Gagner ce qu’on avait perdu”.
What does regagner mean in English?
verb
- 1
to regain, to recover (something lost)
- 2
to get back, to win back
- 3
to go back to
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Gagner ce qu’on avait perdu. 2. Reprendre une position sur l’ennemi après l'avoir perdue. 3. Reconquérir ce que l’on avait perdu 4. Se remettre bien avec quelqu’un, le ramener à des intérêts qu’il avait abandonnés, au parti qu’il avait quitté.
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 regagner
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- regagnant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- regagné participle past
- regagne first-person indicative present
- regagnes indicative present second-person
- regagnons first-person indicative plural
- regagnez indicative plural present
- regagnent indicative plural present
- regagnais first-person imperfect indicative
- regagnait imperfect indicative singular
- regagnions first-person imperfect indicative
- regagniez imperfect indicative plural
- regagnaient imperfect indicative plural
- regagnai first-person historic indicative
- regagnas historic indicative past
- regagna historic indicative past
- regagnâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce regagner?
- /ʁə.ɡa.ɲe/
- /ʁə.ɡɑ.ɲe/
- \ʁə.ɡa.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 regagner
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is regagner in French?
regagner appears 3.9 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).