cultiver
French, verb/kyl.ti.ve/
cultiver is spelled C-U-L-T-I-V-E-R (8 letters) and appears 5.2 times per million words in written French, the 10,846th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Cultiver is a French verb meaning “to cultivate” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Travailler une terre pour la rendre plus fertile et pour améliorer ses productions”.
What does cultiver mean in English?
verb
- 1
to cultivate
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Travailler une terre pour la rendre plus fertile et pour améliorer ses productions. 2. Prendre soin des plantes. 3. Élever pour la production, en parlant des animaux. 4. Développer, perfectionner par l’instruction, par l’exercice.
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 cultiver
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- cultivant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- cultivé participle past
- cultive first-person indicative present
- cultives indicative present second-person
- cultivons first-person indicative plural
- cultivez indicative plural present
- cultivent indicative plural present
- cultivais first-person imperfect indicative
- cultivait imperfect indicative singular
- cultivions first-person imperfect indicative
- cultiviez imperfect indicative plural
- cultivaient imperfect indicative plural
- cultivai first-person historic indicative
- cultivas historic indicative past
- cultiva historic indicative past
- cultivâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce cultiver?
- /kyl.ti.ve/
- \kyl.ti.ve\
- [kyl.ti.ve]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to cultiver
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is cultiver in French?
cultiver appears 5.2 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).