affecter
French, verb/a.fɛk.te/
affecter is spelled A-F-F-E-C-T-E-R (8 letters) and appears 5.8 times per million words in written French, the 10,141st most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Affecter is a French verb meaning “to feign, affect (an emotion, etc.)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Destiner et appliquer une chose ou une personne à un certain usage”.
What does affecter mean in English?
verb
- 1
to feign, affect (an emotion, etc.)
- 2
to allocate (something),
- 3
to assign someone, to post someone
- 4
to affect, influence
La mort de sa mère l'a fort affecté.
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Destiner et appliquer une chose ou une personne à un certain usage. 2. Feindre ou exagérer certains sentiments, certaines qualités. 3. Marquer une prédilection excessive pour certaines choses. 4. Rechercher une chose avec ambition, y aspirer, s’y porter avec ardeur.
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 affecter
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- affectant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- affecté participle past
- affecte first-person indicative present
- affectes indicative present second-person
- affectons first-person indicative plural
- affectez indicative plural present
- affectent indicative plural present
- affectais first-person imperfect indicative
- affectait imperfect indicative singular
- affections first-person imperfect indicative
- affectiez imperfect indicative plural
- affectaient imperfect indicative plural
- affectai first-person historic indicative
- affectas historic indicative past
- affecta historic indicative past
- affectâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce affecter?
- /a.fɛk.te/
- \a.fɛk.te\
- [a.fɛk.te]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to affecter
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is affecter in French?
affecter appears 5.8 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).