appauvrir
French, verb/a.po.vʁiʁ/
appauvrir is spelled A-P-P-A-U-V-R-I-R (9 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written French, the 47,811th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Appauvrir is a French verb meaning “to impoverish” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Rendre pauvre”.
What does appauvrir mean in English?
verb
- 1
to impoverish
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Rendre pauvre. 2. Épuiser. 3. Ôter ce qui fait la vigueur. 4. ou Devenir pauvre.
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 appauvrir
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- appauvrissant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- appauvri participle past
- appauvris first-person indicative present
- appauvrit indicative present singular
- appauvrissons first-person indicative plural
- appauvrissez indicative plural present
- appauvrissent indicative plural present
- appauvrissais first-person imperfect indicative
- appauvrissait imperfect indicative singular
- appauvrissions first-person imperfect indicative
- appauvrissiez imperfect indicative plural
- appauvrissaient imperfect indicative plural
- appauvrîmes first-person historic indicative
- appauvrîtes historic indicative past
- appauvrirent historic indicative past
- appauvrirai first-person future indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce appauvrir?
- /a.po.vʁiʁ/
- \a.po.vʁiʁ\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to appauvrir
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is appauvrir in French?
appauvrir appears about once in every 2 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).