africaniser
French, verb/a.fʁi.ka.ni.ze/
africaniser is spelled A-F-R-I-C-A-N-I-S-E-R (11 letters) and appears about once in every 60 million words in written French, the 244,837th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Africaniser is a French verb meaning “to Africanize” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Donner à quelque chose (structure économique, politiques, etc.) un caractère africain”.
What does africaniser mean in English?
verb
- 1
to Africanize
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Donner à quelque chose (structure économique, politiques, etc.) un caractère africain. 2. Affecter du personnel africain à une structure.
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 africaniser
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- africanisant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- africanisé participle past
- africanise first-person indicative present
- africanises indicative present second-person
- africanisons first-person indicative plural
- africanisez indicative plural present
- africanisent indicative plural present
- africanisais first-person imperfect indicative
- africanisait imperfect indicative singular
- africanisions first-person imperfect indicative
- africanisiez imperfect indicative plural
- africanisaient imperfect indicative plural
- africanisai first-person historic indicative
- africanisas historic indicative past
- africanisa historic indicative past
- africanisâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce africaniser?
- /a.fʁi.ka.ni.ze/
- \a.fʁi.ka.ni.ze\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is africaniser in French?
africaniser appears about once in every 60 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).