élever
French, verb/el.ve/
élever is spelled É-L-E-V-E-R (6 letters) and appears 14 times per million words in written French, the 5,230th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Élever is a French verb meaning “to raise” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Mettre plus haut, porter plus haut, rendre plus haut”.
What does élever mean in English?
verb
- 1
to raise
ne pas avoir élevé les cochons ensemble
- 2
to bring up
bien élevé
- 3
to raise a number to a certain power
élever au carré
- 4
to elevate, to enhance
élever le débat
- 5
to be heard, to rise
- 6
to rise, to soar
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Mettre plus haut, porter plus haut, rendre plus haut. 2. Porter vers ce qui est plus grand que soi, en parlant de ses pensées, de son âme, de ses désirs. 3. Fortifier, ennoblir, en parlant de l’âme, de l’esprit. 4. Investir de quelque dignité, placer dans un haut rang, rendre supérieur en pouvoir, en fortune, en gloire.
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 élever
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- élevant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- élevé participle past
- élève first-person indicative present
- élèves indicative present second-person
- élevons first-person indicative plural
- élevez indicative plural present
- élèvent indicative plural present
- élevais first-person imperfect indicative
- élevait imperfect indicative singular
- élevions first-person imperfect indicative
- éleviez imperfect indicative plural
- élevaient imperfect indicative plural
- élevai first-person historic indicative
- élevas historic indicative past
- éleva historic indicative past
- élevâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce élever?
- /el.ve/
- /ɛl.ve/
- \e.lə.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 élever
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is élever in French?
élever appears 14 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).