enlever
French, verb/ɑ̃l.ve/
enlever is spelled E-N-L-E-V-E-R (7 letters) and appears 30 times per million words in written French, the 2,670th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Enlever is a French verb meaning “to remove, take off, take away, clear” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Déplacer vers le haut”.
What does enlever mean in English?
verb
- 1
to remove, take off, take away, clear
- 2
to take off, remove (clothes)
Elle enleva ses lunettes et j'aperçus sa beauté.
- 3
to kidnap, abduct
- 4
to win, capture, carry off
- 5
to come out, wash off
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Déplacer vers le haut. 2. Lever avec rapidité, avec violence. 3. Ravir ; emmener ; emporter par force. 4. Soustraire par rapt un enfant à ses parents.
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 enlever
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- enlevant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- enlevé participle past
- enlève first-person indicative present
- enlèves indicative present second-person
- enlevons first-person indicative plural
- enlevez indicative plural present
- enlèvent indicative plural present
- enlevais first-person imperfect indicative
- enlevait imperfect indicative singular
- enlevions first-person imperfect indicative
- enleviez imperfect indicative plural
- enlevaient imperfect indicative plural
- enlevai first-person historic indicative
- enlevas historic indicative past
- enleva historic indicative past
- enlevâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce enlever?
- /ɑ̃l.ve/
- \ɑ̃l.ve\
- \ɑ̃.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 enlever
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is enlever in French?
enlever appears 30 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).