aérer
French, verb/a.e.ʁe/
aérer is a French verb meaning “to air, to aerate” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Assainir en mettant en contact avec l’air”.
What does aérer mean in English?
verb
- 1
to air, to aerate
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Assainir en mettant en contact avec l’air. 2. Faire prendre l’air à quelqu’un. 3. Respirer, prendre l’air.
noun: 1. Nom d’une méthode de premier secours en santé mentale, consistant à approcher, écouter, réconforter, encourager, renseigner.
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 aérer
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- aérant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- aéré participle past
- aère first-person indicative present
- aères indicative present second-person
- aérons first-person indicative plural
- aérez indicative plural present
- aèrent indicative plural present
- aérais first-person imperfect indicative
- aérait imperfect indicative singular
- aérions first-person imperfect indicative
- aériez imperfect indicative plural
- aéraient imperfect indicative plural
- aérai first-person historic indicative
- aéras historic indicative past
- aéra historic indicative past
- aérâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce aérer?
- /a.e.ʁe/
- \a.e.ʁe\
- [a.e.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 aérer
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is aérer in French?
aérer appears about once in every 1 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).