embourgeoiser
French, verb/ɑ̃.buʁ.ʒwa.ze/
embourgeoiser is spelled E-M-B-O-U-R-G-E-O-I-S-E-R (13 letters) and appears about once in every 43 million words in written French, the 207,469th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Embourgeoiser is a French verb meaning “to become bourgeois” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Contracter une alliance avec une famille bourgeoise, en parlant d’une personne de naissance noble”.
What does embourgeoiser mean in English?
verb
- 1
to become bourgeois
- 2
to gentrify
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Contracter une alliance avec une famille bourgeoise, en parlant d’une personne de naissance noble. 2. Prendre les mœurs, les manières, les préjugés de la bourgeoisie.
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 embourgeoiser
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- embourgeoisant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- embourgeoisé participle past
- embourgeoise first-person indicative present
- embourgeoises indicative present second-person
- embourgeoisons first-person indicative plural
- embourgeoisez indicative plural present
- embourgeoisent indicative plural present
- embourgeoisais first-person imperfect indicative
- embourgeoisait imperfect indicative singular
- embourgeoisions first-person imperfect indicative
- embourgeoisiez imperfect indicative plural
- embourgeoisaient imperfect indicative plural
- embourgeoisai first-person historic indicative
- embourgeoisas historic indicative past
- embourgeoisa historic indicative past
- embourgeoisâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce embourgeoiser?
- /ɑ̃.buʁ.ʒwa.ze/
- \ɑ̃.buʁ.ʒwa.ze\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to embourgeoiser
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is embourgeoiser in French?
embourgeoiser appears about once in every 43 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).