augmenter
French, verb/oɡ.mɑ̃.te/
augmenter is spelled A-U-G-M-E-N-T-E-R (9 letters) and appears 44 times per million words in written French, the 1,907th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Augmenter is a French verb meaning “to increase” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Rendre une quantité plus grande”.
What does augmenter mean in English?
verb
- 1
to increase
- 2
to increase, to augment
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Rendre une quantité plus grande. 2. Accroitre le salaire d’une personne. 3. Devenir plus grand, plus important ou plus intense. 4. Pour une marchandise, devenir plus chère.
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 augmenter
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- augmentant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- augmenté participle past
- augmente first-person indicative present
- augmentes indicative present second-person
- augmentons first-person indicative plural
- augmentez indicative plural present
- augmentent indicative plural present
- augmentais first-person imperfect indicative
- augmentait imperfect indicative singular
- augmentions first-person imperfect indicative
- augmentiez imperfect indicative plural
- augmentaient imperfect indicative plural
- augmentai first-person historic indicative
- augmentas historic indicative past
- augmenta historic indicative past
- augmentâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce augmenter?
- /oɡ.mɑ̃.te/
- /ɔɡ.mɑ̃.te/
- \oɡ.mɑ̃.te\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to augmenter
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is augmenter in French?
augmenter appears 44 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).