édifier
French, verb/e.di.fje/
édifier is spelled É-D-I-F-I-E-R (7 letters) and appears 1.5 times per million words in written French, the 24,887th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Édifier is a French verb meaning “to construct, erect, edify” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Construire, en parlant des églises, des palais et de très grands bâtiments”.
What does édifier mean in English?
verb
- 1
to construct, erect, edify
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Construire, en parlant des églises, des palais et de très grands bâtiments. 2. User de son autorité pour créer, organiser des institutions utiles. 3. Porter à la piété, à la vertu, par l’exemple ou par le discours. 4. Satisfaire par un bon procédé, donner bonne opinion de soi.
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 édifier
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- édifiant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- édifié participle past
- édifie first-person indicative present
- édifies indicative present second-person
- édifions first-person indicative plural
- édifiez indicative plural present
- édifient indicative plural present
- édifiais first-person imperfect indicative
- édifiait imperfect indicative singular
- édifiions first-person imperfect indicative
- édifiiez imperfect indicative plural
- édifiaient imperfect indicative plural
- édifiai first-person historic indicative
- édifias historic indicative past
- édifia historic indicative past
- édifiâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce édifier?
- /e.di.fje/
- \e.di.fje\
- [e.di.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 édifier
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is édifier in French?
édifier appears 1.5 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).