apprivoiser
French, verb/a.pʁi.vwa.ze/
apprivoiser is spelled A-P-P-R-I-V-O-I-S-E-R (11 letters) and appears 1.1 times per million words in written French, the 29,273rd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Apprivoiser is a French verb meaning “to tame” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Rendre un animal moins sauvage”.
What does apprivoiser mean in English?
verb
- 1
to tame
- 2
to win over, to charm
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Rendre un animal moins sauvage. 2. Faire d’un animal sauvage un animal privé. 3. Rendre quelqu’un plus doux, plus traitable. 4. Rendre familier.
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 apprivoiser
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- apprivoisant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- apprivoisé participle past
- apprivoise first-person indicative present
- apprivoises indicative present second-person
- apprivoisons first-person indicative plural
- apprivoisez indicative plural present
- apprivoisent indicative plural present
- apprivoisais first-person imperfect indicative
- apprivoisait imperfect indicative singular
- apprivoisions first-person imperfect indicative
- apprivoisiez imperfect indicative plural
- apprivoisaient imperfect indicative plural
- apprivoisai first-person historic indicative
- apprivoisas historic indicative past
- apprivoisa historic indicative past
- apprivoisâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce apprivoiser?
- /a.pʁi.vwa.ze/
- \a.pʁi.vwa.ze\
- [a.pʁi.vwa.ze]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to apprivoiser
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is apprivoiser in French?
apprivoiser appears 1.1 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).