élargir
French, verb/e.laʁ.ʒiʁ/
élargir is spelled É-L-A-R-G-I-R (7 letters) and appears 6.3 times per million words in written French, the 9,451st most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Élargir is a French verb meaning “to enlarge, to make larger” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Rendre plus large”.
What does élargir mean in English?
verb
- 1
to enlarge, to make larger
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Rendre plus large. 2. Libérer de prison. 3. … 4. Devenir plus large.
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 élargir
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- élargissant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- élargi participle past
- élargis first-person indicative present
- élargit indicative present singular
- élargissons first-person indicative plural
- élargissez indicative plural present
- élargissent indicative plural present
- élargissais first-person imperfect indicative
- élargissait imperfect indicative singular
- élargissions first-person imperfect indicative
- élargissiez imperfect indicative plural
- élargissaient imperfect indicative plural
- élargîmes first-person historic indicative
- élargîtes historic indicative past
- élargirent historic indicative past
- élargirai first-person future indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce élargir?
- /e.laʁ.ʒiʁ/
- \e.laʁ.ʒiʁ\
- [e.laʁ.ʒiʁ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to élargir
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is élargir in French?
élargir appears 6.3 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).