affermer
French, verb/a.fɛʁ.me/
affermer is spelled A-F-F-E-R-M-E-R (8 letters) and appears about once in every 68 million words in written French, the 258,710th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Affermer is a French verb meaning “to have a leasehold” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Donner à ferme ou prendre à ferme”.
What does affermer mean in English?
verb
- 1
to have a leasehold
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Donner à ferme ou prendre à ferme. 2. Prendre ou donner en location, en vue de les sous-louer, des emplacements publicitaires, moyennant une redevance fixe.
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 affermer
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- affermant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- affermé participle past
- afferme first-person indicative present
- affermes indicative present second-person
- affermons first-person indicative plural
- affermez indicative plural present
- afferment indicative plural present
- affermais first-person imperfect indicative
- affermait imperfect indicative singular
- affermions first-person imperfect indicative
- affermiez imperfect indicative plural
- affermaient imperfect indicative plural
- affermai first-person historic indicative
- affermas historic indicative past
- afferma historic indicative past
- affermâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce affermer?
- /a.fɛʁ.me/
- \a.fɛʁ.me\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is affermer in French?
affermer appears about once in every 68 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).