avertir
French, verb/a.vɛʁ.tiʁ/
avertir is spelled A-V-E-R-T-I-R (7 letters) and appears 5.4 times per million words in written French, the 10,655th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Avertir is a French verb meaning “to warn” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Informer quelqu’un de quelque chose, prévenir une personne”.
What does avertir mean in English?
verb
- 1
to warn
- 2
to notify
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Informer quelqu’un de quelque chose, prévenir une personne. 2. Exciter un cheval au moyen de quelques aides lorsqu’il se néglige dans son exercice. 3. Donner un avertissement, symbolisé généralement par un carton jaune, à la suite d'une faute ou d'un comportement déplacé.
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 avertir
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- avertissant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- averti participle past
- avertis first-person indicative present
- avertit indicative present singular
- avertissons first-person indicative plural
- avertissez indicative plural present
- avertissent indicative plural present
- avertissais first-person imperfect indicative
- avertissait imperfect indicative singular
- avertissions first-person imperfect indicative
- avertissiez imperfect indicative plural
- avertissaient imperfect indicative plural
- avertîmes first-person historic indicative
- avertîtes historic indicative past
- avertirent historic indicative past
- avertirai first-person future indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce avertir?
- /a.vɛʁ.tiʁ/
- \a.vɛʁ.tiʁ\
- [a.vɛʁ.tiʁ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to avertir
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is avertir in French?
avertir appears 5.4 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).