bénéficier
French, verb/be.ne.fi.sje/
bénéficier is spelled B-É-N-É-F-I-C-I-E-R (10 letters) and appears 18 times per million words in written French, the 4,136th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Bénéficier is a French verb meaning “to enjoy, to benefit from, to get, to receive” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Tirer avantage, profit ou plus-value de quelque chose ; profiter (de)”.
What does bénéficier mean in English?
verb
- 1
to enjoy, to benefit from, to get, to receive
- 2
proscribedto benefit to
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Tirer avantage, profit ou plus-value de quelque chose ; profiter (de). 2. Donner un profit à quelqu’un ou à quelque chose, profiter (à).
noun: 1. Celui qui avait un bénéfice ecclésiastique.
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 bénéficier
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- bénéficiant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- bénéficié participle past
- bénéficie first-person indicative present
- bénéficies indicative present second-person
- bénéficions first-person indicative plural
- bénéficiez indicative plural present
- bénéficient indicative plural present
- bénéficiais first-person imperfect indicative
- bénéficiait imperfect indicative singular
- bénéficiions first-person imperfect indicative
- bénéficiiez imperfect indicative plural
- bénéficiaient imperfect indicative plural
- bénéficiai first-person historic indicative
- bénéficias historic indicative past
- bénéficia historic indicative past
- bénéficiâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce bénéficier?
- /be.ne.fi.sje/
- \be.ne.fi.sje\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is bénéficier in French?
bénéficier appears 18 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).