conquérir
French, verb/kɔ̃.ke.ʁiʁ/
conquérir is spelled C-O-N-Q-U-É-R-I-R (9 letters) and appears 6.9 times per million words in written French, the 8,831st most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Conquérir is a French verb meaning “to conquer, to capture” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Acquérir par les armes”.
What does conquérir mean in English?
verb
- 1
to conquer, to capture
- 2
to win, to win over
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Acquérir par les armes. 2. Gagner par la persuasion, l'exemple, le charme etc. 3. Acquérir par l’effort. 4. Conquérir sur quelque chose : gagner sur quelque chose par une action comparée à une conquête.
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 conquérir
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- conquérant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- conquis participle past
- conquiers first-person indicative present
- conquiert indicative present singular
- conquérons first-person indicative plural
- conquérez indicative plural present
- conquièrent indicative plural present
- conquérais first-person imperfect indicative
- conquérait imperfect indicative singular
- conquérions first-person imperfect indicative
- conquériez imperfect indicative plural
- conquéraient imperfect indicative plural
- conquit historic indicative past
- conquîmes first-person historic indicative
- conquîtes historic indicative past
- conquirent historic indicative past
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce conquérir?
- /kɔ̃.ke.ʁiʁ/
- \kɔ̃.ke.ʁiʁ\
- [kɔ̃.ke.ʁiʁ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to conquérir
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is conquérir in French?
conquérir appears 6.9 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).