clarifier
French, verb/kla.ʁi.fje/
clarifier is spelled C-L-A-R-I-F-I-E-R (9 letters) and appears 3.5 times per million words in written French, the 14,436th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Clarifier is a French verb meaning “to clarify” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Rendre claire une substance trouble”.
What does clarifier mean in English?
verb
- 1
to clarify
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Rendre claire une substance trouble. 2. Purifier une substance fluide quelconque. 3. Clarifier des œufs : séparer le jaune du blanc. 4. Rendre plus clair, plus compréhensible.
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 clarifier
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- clarifiant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- clarifié participle past
- clarifie first-person indicative present
- clarifies indicative present second-person
- clarifions first-person indicative plural
- clarifiez indicative plural present
- clarifient indicative plural present
- clarifiais first-person imperfect indicative
- clarifiait imperfect indicative singular
- clarifiions first-person imperfect indicative
- clarifiiez imperfect indicative plural
- clarifiaient imperfect indicative plural
- clarifiai first-person historic indicative
- clarifias historic indicative past
- clarifia historic indicative past
- clarifiâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce clarifier?
- /kla.ʁi.fje/
- \kla.ʁi.fje\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to clarifier
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is clarifier in French?
clarifier appears 3.5 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).