carier
French, verb/ka.ʁje/
carier is a French verb meaning “to rot, to rot away” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Altérer par la carie”.
What does carier mean in English?
verb
- 1
to rot, to rot away
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Altérer par la carie.
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 carier
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- cariant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- carié participle past
- carie first-person indicative present
- caries indicative present second-person
- carions first-person indicative plural
- cariez indicative plural present
- carient indicative plural present
- cariais first-person imperfect indicative
- cariait imperfect indicative singular
- cariions first-person imperfect indicative
- cariiez imperfect indicative plural
- cariaient imperfect indicative plural
- cariai first-person historic indicative
- carias historic indicative past
- caria historic indicative past
- cariâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce carier?
- /ka.ʁje/
- \ka.ʁje\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is carier in French?
carier appears about once in every 56 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).