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réparer

French, verb/ʁe.pa.ʁe/

réparer is a French verb meaning “to repair, fix, mend” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Remettre en état ce qui a été endommagé”.

What does réparer mean in English?

verb

  1. 1

    to repair, fix, mend

Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How French dictionaries define it

verb: 1. Remettre en état ce qui a été endommagé. 2. Ôter les défauts d’aspect, mettre la dernière main à un ouvrage 3. Apporter une solution ou un remède aux conséquences fâcheuses d'une situation. 4. Rétablir dans l'état précédent.

verb: 1. Parer de nouveau.

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 réparer

  • avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
  • réparant gerund participle present
  • ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
  • réparé participle past
  • répare first-person indicative present
  • répares indicative present second-person
  • réparons first-person indicative plural
  • réparez indicative plural present
  • réparent indicative plural present
  • réparais first-person imperfect indicative
  • réparait imperfect indicative singular
  • réparions first-person imperfect indicative
  • répariez imperfect indicative plural
  • réparaient imperfect indicative plural
  • réparai first-person historic indicative
  • réparas historic indicative past
  • répara historic indicative past
  • réparâmes first-person historic indicative

Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce réparer?

  • /ʁe.pa.ʁe/
  • \ʁe.pa.ʁe\
  • [ʁe.pa.ʁe]

Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

English words that translate to réparer

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is réparer in French?

réparer appears 15 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).