encourager
French, verb/ɑ̃.ku.ʁa.ʒe/
encourager is spelled E-N-C-O-U-R-A-G-E-R (10 letters) and appears 15 times per million words in written French, the 4,842nd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Encourager is a French verb meaning “to encourage” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Inciter à avoir du courage”.
What does encourager mean in English?
verb
- 1
to encourage
Elle m'encourage à toujours faire de mon mieux.
- 2
to motivate oneself
- 3
to encourage each other
Ils se sont encouragés les uns les autres à faire de leur mieux.
- 4
to promote
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Inciter à avoir du courage. 2. Favoriser le progrès, le développement d’une affaire en parlant du commerce, de l’industrie. 3. Inciter quelqu’un à faire pour le mieux 4. Exciter quelqu'un, le pousser, le provoquer à ce qu'il a déjà en disposition.
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 encourager
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- encourageant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- encouragé participle past
- encourage first-person indicative present
- encourages indicative present second-person
- encourageons first-person indicative plural
- encouragez indicative plural present
- encouragent indicative plural present
- encourageais first-person imperfect indicative
- encourageait imperfect indicative singular
- encouragions first-person imperfect indicative
- encouragiez imperfect indicative plural
- encourageaient imperfect indicative plural
- encourageai first-person historic indicative
- encourageas historic indicative past
- encouragea historic indicative past
- encourageâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce encourager?
- /ɑ̃.ku.ʁa.ʒe/
- \ɑ̃.ku.ʁa.ʒe\
- [ɑ̃.ku.ʁa.ʒe]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to encourager
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is encourager in French?
encourager appears 15 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).