apprécier
French, verb/a.pʁe.sje/
apprécier is spelled A-P-P-R-É-C-I-E-R (9 letters) and appears 20 times per million words in written French, the 3,747th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Apprécier is a French verb meaning “to appreciate” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Déterminer ; estimer ; ressentir”.
What does apprécier mean in English?
verb
- 1
to appreciate
- 2
to like
- 3
to evaluate or measure quantitatively; to appraise
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Déterminer ; estimer ; ressentir. 2. Estimer, évaluer, fixer la valeur ou le prix. 3. Avoir suffisamment de clairvoyance pour reconnaître la valeur de. 4. Tenir en estime, en parlant d’une personne ou d’une chose.
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 apprécier
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- appréciant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- apprécié participle past
- apprécie first-person indicative present
- apprécies indicative present second-person
- apprécions first-person indicative plural
- appréciez indicative plural present
- apprécient indicative plural present
- appréciais first-person imperfect indicative
- appréciait imperfect indicative singular
- appréciions first-person imperfect indicative
- appréciiez imperfect indicative plural
- appréciaient imperfect indicative plural
- appréciai first-person historic indicative
- apprécias historic indicative past
- apprécia historic indicative past
- appréciâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce apprécier?
- /a.pʁe.sje/
- \a.pʁe.sje\
- [a.pʁe.sje]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to apprécier
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is apprécier in French?
apprécier appears 20 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).