affiner
French, verb/a.fi.ne/
affiner is spelled A-F-F-I-N-E-R (7 letters) and appears 1.7 times per million words in written French, the 22,802nd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Affiner is a French verb meaning “to purify” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Rendre ou devenir plus fin, plus délié”.
What does affiner mean in English?
verb
- 1
to purify
- 2
to refine
- 3
to make finer
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Rendre ou devenir plus fin, plus délié. 2. Purifier par un moyen quelconque. 3. Procéder à la maturation des fromages. 4. Arriver à une solution plus fine.
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 affiner
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- affinant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- affiné participle past
- affine first-person indicative present
- affines indicative present second-person
- affinons first-person indicative plural
- affinez indicative plural present
- affinent indicative plural present
- affinais first-person imperfect indicative
- affinait imperfect indicative singular
- affinions first-person imperfect indicative
- affiniez imperfect indicative plural
- affinaient imperfect indicative plural
- affinai first-person historic indicative
- affinas historic indicative past
- affina historic indicative past
- affinâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce affiner?
- /a.fi.ne/
- \a.fi.ne\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to affiner
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is affiner in French?
affiner appears 1.7 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).