ailler
French, verb/a.je/
ailler is spelled A-I-L-L-E-R (6 letters) and appears about once in every 38 million words in written French, the 196,291st most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Ailler is a French verb meaning “to add garlic (to)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Garnir ou frotter d'ail”.
What does ailler mean in English?
verb
- 1
to add garlic (to)
suffix
- 1
forms verbs with frequentative effect, often somewhat pejorative
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Garnir ou frotter d'ail.
suffix: 1. Suffixe verbal formateur de verbes fréquentatifs et, le plus souvent péjoratifs, à partir de verbes mais aussi, quoique plus rarement, de substantifs.
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 ailler
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- aillant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- aillé participle past
- aille first-person indicative present
- ailles indicative present second-person
- aillons first-person indicative plural
- aillez indicative plural present
- aillent indicative plural present
- aillais first-person imperfect indicative
- aillait imperfect indicative singular
- aillions first-person imperfect indicative
- ailliez imperfect indicative plural
- aillaient imperfect indicative plural
- aillai first-person historic indicative
- aillas historic indicative past
- ailla historic indicative past
- aillâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce ailler?
- /a.je/
- /ɑ.je/
- \a.je\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is ailler in French?
ailler appears about once in every 38 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).