agiter
French, verb/a.ʒi.te/
agiter is spelled A-G-I-T-E-R (6 letters) and appears 2.2 times per million words in written French, the 19,241st most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Agiter is a French verb meaning “to shake, to wave (to move back and forth)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Secouer vivement en tout sens”.
What does agiter mean in English?
verb
- 1
to shake, to wave (to move back and forth)
- 2
to agitate
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Secouer vivement en tout sens. 2. Causer un trouble ou une vive émotion. 3. Montrer ostensiblement ; exhiber. 4. Discuter des différentes options permettant de résoudre une question.
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 agiter
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- agitant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- agité participle past
- agite first-person indicative present
- agites indicative present second-person
- agitons first-person indicative plural
- agitez indicative plural present
- agitent indicative plural present
- agitais first-person imperfect indicative
- agitait imperfect indicative singular
- agitions first-person imperfect indicative
- agitiez imperfect indicative plural
- agitaient imperfect indicative plural
- agitai first-person historic indicative
- agitas historic indicative past
- agita historic indicative past
- agitâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce agiter?
- /a.ʒi.te/
- \a.ʒi.te\
- [a.ʒi.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 agiter
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is agiter in French?
agiter appears 2.2 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).