affecté
French, verb
affecté is spelled A-F-F-E-C-T-É (7 letters) and appears 11 times per million words in written French, the 6,385th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Affecté is a French verb meaning “past participle of affecter” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). Without its accent, affecte is a different word: “first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive”.
What does affecté mean in English?
verb
- 1
past participle of affecter
verb
- 1
first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
- 2
second-person singular imperative
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. Qui a de l’affectation, qui manque de naturel. 2. Qui éprouve un sentiment de peine en réaction à un événement, à une information.
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 affecté
- affectée feminine
- affectés masculine plural
- affectées feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to affecté
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is affecté in French?
affecté appears 11 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).