séparer
French, verb/se.pa.ʁe/
séparer is a French verb meaning “to separate” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Désunir des parties d’un même tout qui étaient jointes”.
What does séparer mean in English?
verb
- 1
to separate
- 2
to split up, to cause to come apart
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Désunir des parties d’un même tout qui étaient jointes. 2. Faire que des personnes, des animaux, des choses ne soient plus ensemble. 3. Éloigner, faire cesser le combat. 4. Dissoudre une union, une communauté.
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 séparer
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- séparant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- séparé participle past
- sépare first-person indicative present
- sépares indicative present second-person
- séparons first-person indicative plural
- séparez indicative plural present
- séparent indicative plural present
- séparais first-person imperfect indicative
- séparait imperfect indicative singular
- séparions first-person imperfect indicative
- sépariez imperfect indicative plural
- séparaient imperfect indicative plural
- séparai first-person historic indicative
- séparas historic indicative past
- sépara historic indicative past
- séparâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce séparer?
- /se.pa.ʁe/
- \se.pa.ʁe\
- [se.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 séparer
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is séparer in French?
séparer 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).