apostropher
French, verb/a.pɔs.tʁɔ.fe/
apostropher is spelled A-P-O-S-T-R-O-P-H-E-R (11 letters) and appears about once in every 11 million words in written French, the 110,748th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Apostropher is a French verb meaning “to apostrophize” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Interpeller par apostrophe une personne morte ou absente, ou un objet personnifié”.
What does apostropher mean in English?
verb
- 1
to apostrophize
- 2
to speak sharply or harshly at
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Interpeller par apostrophe une personne morte ou absente, ou un objet personnifié. 2. Interpeller quelqu’un pour lui dire quelque chose de façon impolie ou désagréable. 3. Donner un coup (à quelqu’un).
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 apostropher
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- apostrophant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- apostrophé participle past
- apostrophe first-person indicative present
- apostrophes indicative present second-person
- apostrophons first-person indicative plural
- apostrophez indicative plural present
- apostrophent indicative plural present
- apostrophais first-person imperfect indicative
- apostrophait imperfect indicative singular
- apostrophions first-person imperfect indicative
- apostrophiez imperfect indicative plural
- apostrophaient imperfect indicative plural
- apostrophai first-person historic indicative
- apostrophas historic indicative past
- apostropha historic indicative past
- apostrophâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce apostropher?
- /a.pɔs.tʁɔ.fe/
- \a.pɔs.tʁɔ.fe\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to apostropher
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is apostropher in French?
apostropher appears about once in every 11 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).