appuyer
French, verb/a.pɥi.je/
appuyer is spelled A-P-P-U-Y-E-R (7 letters) and appears 16 times per million words in written French, the 4,565th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Appuyer is a French verb meaning “to press, push” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Placer contre quelque chose”.
What does appuyer mean in English?
verb
- 1
to press, push
- 2
to rest
- 3
to support, to back
- 4
to lean
- 5
to depend, to rely
- 6
to put up with
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Placer contre quelque chose. 2. Soutenir ; motiver. 3. Appliquer fortement l’éperon à un cheval. 4. Demeurer plus ou moins longtemps sur une note.
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 appuyer
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- appuyant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- appuyé participle past
- appuie first-person indicative present
- appuies indicative present second-person
- appuyons first-person indicative plural
- appuyez indicative plural present
- appuient indicative plural present
- appuyais first-person imperfect indicative
- appuyait imperfect indicative singular
- appuyions first-person imperfect indicative
- appuyiez imperfect indicative plural
- appuyaient imperfect indicative plural
- appuyai first-person historic indicative
- appuyas historic indicative past
- appuya historic indicative past
- appuyâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce appuyer?
- /a.pɥi.je/
- \a.pɥi.je\
- [a.pɥi.je]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to appuyer
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is appuyer in French?
appuyer appears 16 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).