tuer
French, verb/tɥe/
tuer is a French verb meaning “to kill” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Ôter la vie d’une manière violente ; ne se dit pas quand il s’agit d'une euthanasie, ni à la forme…”.
What does tuer mean in English?
verb
- 1
to kill
Fumer tue.
- 2
colloquialto rock, to be awesome
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Ôter la vie d’une manière violente ; ne se dit pas quand il s’agit d'une euthanasie, ni à la forme pronominale dans le cas d’une mort accidentelle par noyade, étouffement ou empoisonnement : on emploie alors se noyer, s’étouffer, s’empoisonner. 2. Provoquer une mort violente par accident ; provoquer une mort naturelle en parlant des maladies. 3. Causer la mort. 4. Fatiguer excessivement le corps, altérer la santé.
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 tuer
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- tuant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- tué participle past
- tue first-person indicative present
- tues indicative present second-person
- tuons first-person indicative plural
- tuez indicative plural present
- tuent indicative plural present
- tuais first-person imperfect indicative
- tuait imperfect indicative singular
- tuions first-person imperfect indicative
- tuiez imperfect indicative plural
- tuaient imperfect indicative plural
- tuai first-person historic indicative
- tuas historic indicative past
- tua historic indicative past
- tuâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce tuer?
- France /tɥe/
- France /ty.e/
- Quebec /t͡sɥe/
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to tuer
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is tuer in French?
tuer appears 59 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).