French verbs beginning with G

206 verbs with English meanings. Select a verb to see its conjugation.

• gadgétiserto make a gadget
• gafferto make a gaffe; to mess up; botch up; to gaffer tape
• gagerto guarantee; to wager or bet
• gagnerwin; earn; gain
• gainerto cover, sheathe
• galantiserto be ridiculously gallant toward women
• galberto give a curve to
• galerto scratch
• galonnerto braid, galloon (trim with braid)
• galoperto gallop
• galvaniserto galvanize
• galvanocautériserburn with electricity
• galvauderto tarnish, sully, debase, bring into disrepute; to waste; to squander (informal); to overuse, render trite; to be lazy, loaf around
• galéjerto joke
• galérerto have a hard time (be in difficulties) (informal, intransitive)
• gambaderto frolic, gambol, caper (intransitive)
• gambergerto think hard (slang)
• gambillerto jig about (intransitive); to dance (intransitive)
• gaminerto make mischief
• gangrenerto develop gangrene (reflexive); to completely corrupt (figurative)
• gangrénerto develop gangrene (reflexive); to completely corrupt (figurative)
• gangstériserto act like a gangster, to start behaving criminally (reflexive)
• ganserto border (decorate with a border)
• ganterto glove (cover with a glove) (transitive)
• garancerto dye with madder
• garantirto guarantee (to assure that something will get done right); to protect, preserve
• garderkeep; look after; guard
• garerto cover, shelter; to park (a vehicle) (reflexive, transitive); to dock (a vessel) (transitive)
• gargoterto cook badly (informal, intransitive)
• gargouillerto gargle; to rumble
• garnirto furnish (a building, a room); to decorate, to pretty, to garnish; to arm (dated)
• garrotterto bind, fasten strongly (transitive)
• gaspillerto waste
• gastrectomiserto gastrectomize
• gastrotomisercreate a surgical opening connecting the stomach to the outside
• gaucherto make crooked
• gauchirto dodge (intransitive); to speak or act deceptively (intransitive); to warp, buckle, distort, bend; to flavour with left-oriented political views (transitive)
• gauchiserto shift left
• gaufrerto emboss (transitive); to goffer (transitive)
• gaulerto beat, beat down (with a pole) (transitive); to catch (informal, transitive)
• gaverto force-feed (transitive); to gorge oneself; to overeat (reflexive); to fill up, exasperate (slang, transitive)
• gazerto gas (exterminate using gas); to smoke (a cigarette) (slang); to rage, to become irate; to go well, to be well (feeling) (informal)
• gazonnerto cover with sod; to turf
• gazouillerto chirp, to twitter; to gurgle; to tweet (microblogging)
• gazéifierto gasify; to aerate; to carbonate
• geindreto moan, groan
• gelerto freeze; to be very cold (impersonal)
• gemmertap pine trees for resin
• gerberto sheave; to stack; to puke, to throw up (slang)
• gercerto chap, become chapped
• germaniserto Germanize
• germerto germinate
• gesticulerto gesticulate (make gestures)
• ghettoïserto ghettoize (transitive)
• giboulerto pour down (archaic, impersonal, rare)
• giclerto squirt, to spurt (intransitive); to ejaculate, to cum (intransitive, vulgar)
• giflerto slap (on the face) (transitive)
• gigoterto wriggle (about)
• givrerto ice up; to glaze
• glacerto freeze; to turn to ice (transitive); to freeze (figurative, transitive); to ice (cover with icing); to turn to ice (become ice) (reflexive)
• glairercoat with an egg-white sizing (bookbinding)
• glaiserto clay, spread clay onto
• glanderto do (slang, transitive); to loaf around, to bum around, to cabbage (intransitive, slang)
• glandouillerto do nothing; to bum around all day (intransitive)
• glanerto gather, to glean
• glapirto yelp, bark; to shriek
• glatirbark repeatedly; cry (of an eagle)
• gleyifiertransform soil into gley
• glisserslide; slip; glide; slip something into
• globaliserto globalise, to globalize
• globuliserEnrich in globules; shape into spheres
• glorifierlaud, glorify
• gloserto annotate, gloss; to ramble on (sur about)
• glottaliserglottalize
• glouglouterto gobble (like a turkey) (intransitive); to gurgle (intransitive)
• glousserto cluck (make the noise of a chicken); to gobble (make the noise of a turkey); to chortle, to giggle
• glycérinerto glycerinate
• goberto swallow whole; to believe easily, without evidence; to buy (figurative); to ingest drugs, especially ecstasy or LSD (slang)
• gobergerto feast; to treat generously; to indulge oneself
• gobichonnerto guzzle, gobble up, devour
• godaillerto gorge, to glut (to eat and drink in excess) (informal, dated, intransitive)
• goderpucker or wrinkle (fabric); blister or lift (poorly glued material); have an erection (slang); penetrate with a dildo (vulgar)
• godillerto scull (transitive); to wedeln (transitive)
• godronnerto decorate with pleats; to form pleats
• goguenardermock; jest
• goinfrerto pig out, to stuff oneself (reflexive); stuff (something or someone with something) (rare)
• gominerto apply hair gel, to style one's hair
• gommerto gum; to erase, rub out
• gondoler(of boats) to curve at the bow and stern like a gondola (intransitive); to warp, deform (usually due to moisture) (intransitive); to warp (reflexive); to bend over laughing, to split one's sides (informal, reflexive)
• gonflerto inflate, to blow up (transitive); to swell, to puff up (intransitive); to get on someone's nerves (informal, transitive)
• gorgerto gorge oneself (eat greedily)
• gouacherto paint with gouache
• gouaillerto mock, to jeer at
• goudronnerto tar; to tar up (to cover with tar) (transitive); to tarmac (transitive)
• goujonnerassemble with pins or dowels
• goupillerto pin (together) (reflexive, transitive); to arrange (transitive); to turn out (reflexive)
• gourerto goof up, to mess up, to screw up; to doubt something, to be wary of something
• gourmanderto scold (transitive); to lard (food) (transitive)
• goutterto drip (to fall one drop at a time)
• gouvernerto govern; to steer
• goûtertaste; try food; enjoy; have an afternoon snack
• grabatiserbecome bedridden
• gracierto pardon, to issue a pardon to
• graciliserbecome thinner
• graduerto graduate (transitive)
• graillerto nosh (eat) (informal); to blow the horn while hunting (intransitive); to screech (of a raven or crow) (intransitive); to charge a gun with ammunition (intransitive)
• graillonnerto smell burnt fat; to cough up phlegm
• grainerto granulate; to seed
• graisserto grease, oil, lubricate (transitive); to smear (transitive)
• grammaticaliserto grammaticalize
• grandirgrow; grow up; become larger; magnify
• graniterto paint like granite
• granitiserturn to granite
• granulerto granulate, to grain
• graphiterto graphite
• graphitiserto treat to transform carbon into graphite
• grappillerto pick (grapes in a vine after the main harvest); to scrape together, rake together (figurative)
• grasseyerto pronounce uvularly
• graticulergrid
• gratifierto gratify; to reward
• gratinerto grill; to brown
• gratterto scrub; to scrape; to scratch (transitive); to itch (informal, intransitive)
• graverto engrave; to carve (wood); to burn (data, onto a CD, DVD, etc.)
• gravillonnerto cover with gravel
• gravirto climb up
• graviterto orbit, gravitate
• grecquercut grooves across the spine
• grefferto transplant, to graft (transitive)
• grelotterto shiver, tremble
• grenaillerturn metal into small grains or shot
• grenelerto grain
• grenerto grain
• grenouillerto splash in water; intrigue for self-interest; drink excessively
• greverto burden; put a burden on (transitive); to put a weight on (someone's shoulders) (figurative, transitive); to hang over; weigh heavy over (transitive)
• gribouillerto scribble (write something scruffily); to doodle (to draw or scribble aimlessly); to scribble on (cover with messy writing)
• grifferto scratch
• griffonnerto scribble, scrawl (write something scruffily)
• grignerbare or grind the teeth; pucker (of fabric); score bread before baking
• grignoterto nibble; to snack
• grillagerto enclose with wire netting (transitive)
• grillerto toast (cook with a toaster); to grill (cook with a grill); to toast (heat up, said of e.g. skin) (intransitive); to smoke (a cigarette) (informal)
• grimacerto grimace (intransitive)
• grimerto make up, to paint (apply make up or face paint to); to make (someone's face) look older
• grimper(climbing) to climb, climb up (intransitive)
• grincerto squeak (emit sound); to creak, rasp, squeal; to gnash; to squawk
• grinchersteal (slang); squeak; blister excessively (of a bread crust)
• gripperto grab, to grasp
• grisaillerTurn gray; render gray; paint in grisaille
• grisergrey (to become grey); gray out, to make (a visual element) gray or lighter in color to indicate that it is disabled or unavailable; to get tipsy (reflexive)
• grisollersing (bird)
• grisonnerto (become) grey (especially of hair) (intransitive)
• grivelerto make small illicit profits; to leave a restaurant without paying
• grognerto grunt (for a pig, make the sound of a pig); to grunt (for a person, to make a snorting sound e.g. of disapproval); to growl, to snarl (for an animal, to make a growling or snarling sound)
• grognonnerto grumble
• grommelerto grumble, mutter (informal)
• gronderto rumble, roar; to growl (intransitive); to tell off, scold, chew out (transitive)
• grossirto increase, to make larger (transitive); to plump up (transitive); to put on weight, to gain weight; to get fat (intransitive)
• grossoyerto engross
• grouillerto mill about, swarm with people (intransitive); to swarm or crawl (intransitive); to hurry; to get a move on (informal, reflexive)
• grouperto group (to put together to form a group)
• groupuscularisersplit into or give the character of small political factions
• grugerto dupe, con; to rob (informal); to devour, scoff (informal)
• gréciserto Grecize (render Grecian); to Grecize (translate into Greek)
• gréerto rig (transitive)
• grégariserto make gregarious
• gréserto polish with sand; to edge glass
• grésifierturn into sandstone
• grésillerto crackle (intransitive); to sizzle (intransitive); to sleet (impersonal, intransitive)
• grêlerto hail (impersonal)
• guerroyerto wage war; to hassle; to bother (figurative)
• guetterto watch (intently), to watch for, to lie in wait (transitive); to await in order to seize (figurative, transitive); to menace, to loom (to appear in a threatening form) (figurative, transitive)
• gueulerto yell, to scream (slang, vulgar)
• gueuletonnerto chow down; to munch (informal)
• gueuserbeg for a living; wander as a vagrant; beg for something; ballast with a cast-iron weight
• guiderto guide
• guignerto eye (sneak a look at) (transitive)
• guillemeterto put in quotation marks; to flag for attention
• guillocherto guilloche
• guillotinerto guillotine, to execute with a guillotine (transitive)
• guincherto boogie (dance) (informal)
• guinderto raise, erect; to hoist (transitive); to sway, hoist (a yard, mast etc.) (transitive); to harden (someone), toughen (someone) up; to give (someone) strength (transitive)
• guiperto wrap; to coil; to sheath
• guitariserplay the guitar; adapt for the guitar
• gutturaliserpronounce gutturally
• guéerto ford (a river, etc.); to bathe
• guérircure; heal; recover from an illness
• guêtrerto wear gaiters; to be gaitered
• gâcherspoil; ruin; waste; botch
• gâterto spoil, ruin; to go bad, go off (reflexive)
• gâtifierbehave in a senile or childish way
• gélatinerto cover with gelatin; to cover with a colored gelatin filter; to become gelatinous
• gélatiniserto gelatinize
• gélifierto gel (to make into a gel)
• géminerto geminate
• gémirto moan; to groan
• généraliserto generalise (all senses); to become common, standard, widespread; to spread (reflexive)
• générerto generate (transitive)
• géométriserto geometrize
• gérermanage; run; handle
• gésirto lie (to be in a horizontal position), especially when dead or wounded (archaic, intransitive, literary); to be located (archaic, intransitive, literary); to be buried, hidden (archaic, intransitive, literary)
• gênerbother; hinder; embarrass; obstruct
• gîterto list, heel over (intransitive); to (take) shelter, rest (archaic, intransitive, literary)
• se gargariserto gargle (reflexive)
• se gausserto openly mock, to scorn, to criticize harshly (reflexive)
• se gendarmerto get angry over trifles; to act like a policeman
• se grumelerto become lumpy