acérer
French, verb/a.se.ʁe/
acérer is spelled A-C-É-R-E-R (6 letters). Acérer is a French verb meaning “to sharpen (a point)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Souder de l’acier à la pointe ou au tranchant d’un outil, d’un instrument de fer, pour le rendre susceptible…”.
What does acérer mean in English?
verb
- 1
to sharpen (a point)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Souder de l’acier à la pointe ou au tranchant d’un outil, d’un instrument de fer, pour le rendre susceptible d’être trempé et de devenir ainsi plus propre à percer ou à couper.
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 acérer
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- acérant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- acéré participle past
- acère first-person indicative present
- acères indicative present second-person
- acérons first-person indicative plural
- acérez indicative plural present
- acèrent indicative plural present
- acérais first-person imperfect indicative
- acérait imperfect indicative singular
- acérions first-person imperfect indicative
- acériez imperfect indicative plural
- acéraient imperfect indicative plural
- acérai first-person historic indicative
- acéras historic indicative past
- acéra historic indicative past
- acérâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce acérer?
- /a.se.ʁe/
- \a.se.ʁe\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.