aguerrir
French, verb/a.ɡɛ.ʁiʁ/
aguerrir is spelled A-G-U-E-R-R-I-R (8 letters) and appears about once in every 7 million words in written French, the 85,597th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Aguerrir is a French verb meaning “to harden (become or make something resistant or less sensitive to)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Accoutumer aux fatigues de la guerre”.
What does aguerrir mean in English?
verb
- 1
to harden (become or make something resistant or less sensitive to)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Accoutumer aux fatigues de la guerre. 2. Accoutumer une personne à quelque chose qui paraît pénible au début.
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 aguerrir
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- aguerrissant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- aguerri participle past
- aguerris first-person indicative present
- aguerrit indicative present singular
- aguerrissons first-person indicative plural
- aguerrissez indicative plural present
- aguerrissent indicative plural present
- aguerrissais first-person imperfect indicative
- aguerrissait imperfect indicative singular
- aguerrissions first-person imperfect indicative
- aguerrissiez imperfect indicative plural
- aguerrissaient imperfect indicative plural
- aguerrîmes first-person historic indicative
- aguerrîtes historic indicative past
- avoir aguerri infinitive past
- en aguerrissant gerund present
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce aguerrir?
- /a.ɡɛ.ʁiʁ/
- /a.ɡe.ʁiʁ/
- \a.ɡɛ.ʁiʁ\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to aguerrir
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is aguerrir in French?
aguerrir appears about once in every 7 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).