avancer
French, verb/a.vɑ̃.se/
avancer is spelled A-V-A-N-C-E-R (7 letters) and appears 32 times per million words in written French, the 2,514th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Avancer is a French verb meaning “to advance, to go forward” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Pousser en avant ; porter en avant”.
What does avancer mean in English?
verb
- 1
to advance, to go forward
- 2
to progress
- 3
to bring forward, to advance
- 4
to propose, to put forward
- 5
to move towards, to go up to, to approach
- 6
colloquialto help out somebody by lending them money for a short time (for example because they don't have any cash and the store doesn't take bank cards), to tide someone over
Tu saurais m'avancer cinq euros ? Je te rembourse ça dans dix minutes.
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Pousser en avant ; porter en avant. 2. Rapprocher un objet de quelqu’un ou de quelque chose. 3. Porter à un moment antérieur dans le temps. 4. Faire progresser quelque 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 avancer
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- avançant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- avancé participle past
- avance first-person indicative present
- avances indicative present second-person
- avançons first-person indicative plural
- avancez indicative plural present
- avancent indicative plural present
- avançais first-person imperfect indicative
- avançait imperfect indicative singular
- avancions first-person imperfect indicative
- avanciez imperfect indicative plural
- avançaient imperfect indicative plural
- avançai first-person historic indicative
- avanças historic indicative past
- avança historic indicative past
- avançâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce avancer?
- /a.vɑ̃.se/
- \a.vɑ̃.se\
- [sa.vɑ̃.se]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to avancer
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is avancer in French?
avancer appears 32 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).