agrandir
French, verb/a.ɡʁɑ̃.diʁ/
agrandir is spelled A-G-R-A-N-D-I-R (8 letters) and appears 4.3 times per million words in written French, the 12,541st most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Agrandir is a French verb meaning “to enlarge, make bigger” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Rendre plus grand”.
What does agrandir mean in English?
verb
- 1
to enlarge, make bigger
- 2
to extend, to expand (a house, building, area)
- 3
to grow, get bigger
- 4
to embiggen
- 5
to aggrandize
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Rendre plus grand. 2. Rendre plus grand en puissance, en biens, en dignité, en fortune, en vertu. 3. Faire paraître plus grand. 4. Donner un caractère de grandeur à ce qu’on dit, à ce qu’on écrit, à ce qu’on fait.
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 agrandir
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- agrandissant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- agrandi participle past
- agrandis first-person indicative present
- agrandit indicative present singular
- agrandissons first-person indicative plural
- agrandissez indicative plural present
- agrandissent indicative plural present
- agrandissais first-person imperfect indicative
- agrandissait imperfect indicative singular
- agrandissions first-person imperfect indicative
- agrandissiez imperfect indicative plural
- agrandissaient imperfect indicative plural
- agrandîmes first-person historic indicative
- agrandîtes historic indicative past
- agrandirent historic indicative past
- agrandirai first-person future indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce agrandir?
- /a.ɡʁɑ̃.diʁ/
- \a.ɡʁɑ̃.diʁ\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to agrandir
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is agrandir in French?
agrandir appears 4.3 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).