bouleverser
French, verb/bul.vɛʁ.se/
bouleverser is spelled B-O-U-L-E-V-E-R-S-E-R (11 letters) and appears 2.0 times per million words in written French, the 20,671st most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Bouleverser is a French verb meaning “to completely and drastically change, to overturn” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Agiter, troubler avec violence, mettre sens dessus dessous”.
What does bouleverser mean in English?
verb
- 1
to completely and drastically change, to overturn
- 2
to shake, to cause a strong emotion
- 3
to disorganize, to turn upside down
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Agiter, troubler avec violence, mettre sens dessus dessous. 2. Causer une émotion extraordinaire et fort pénible ; troubler. 3. Se dit, au sens physique et au sens moral, en parlant d’un grand désordre, d’une confusion extrême. 4. Modifier du tout au tout ; changer entièrement.
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 bouleverser
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- bouleversant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- bouleversé participle past
- bouleverse first-person indicative present
- bouleverses indicative present second-person
- bouleversons first-person indicative plural
- bouleversez indicative plural present
- bouleversent indicative plural present
- bouleversais first-person imperfect indicative
- bouleversait imperfect indicative singular
- bouleversions first-person imperfect indicative
- bouleversiez imperfect indicative plural
- bouleversaient imperfect indicative plural
- bouleversai first-person historic indicative
- bouleversas historic indicative past
- bouleversa historic indicative past
- bouleversâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce bouleverser?
- /bul.vɛʁ.se/
- \bul.vɛʁ.se\
- [bul.vɛʁ.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 bouleverser
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is bouleverser in French?
bouleverser appears 2.0 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).