envahir
French, verb/ɑ̃.va.iʁ/
envahir is spelled E-N-V-A-H-I-R (7 letters) and appears 4.7 times per million words in written French, the 11,729th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Envahir is a French verb meaning “to invade” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Occuper par force, avec violence, en parlant des humains”.
What does envahir mean in English?
verb
- 1
to invade
Les forces américaines ont envahi le territoire iraquien.
- 2
to stretch, to overgrow, to fill
- 3
to come over (someone) or wash over (someone), as a feeling
Une immense solitude t'envahit.
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Occuper par force, avec violence, en parlant des humains. 2. Occuper en nombre un espace que l'on s’approprie de fait. 3. S’installer à une place occupée auparavant par autre chose. 4. Prendre beaucoup de place en parlant des choses humaines.
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 envahir
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- envahissant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- envahi participle past
- envahis first-person indicative present
- envahit indicative present singular
- envahissons first-person indicative plural
- envahissez indicative plural present
- envahissent indicative plural present
- envahissais first-person imperfect indicative
- envahissait imperfect indicative singular
- envahissions first-person imperfect indicative
- envahissiez imperfect indicative plural
- envahissaient imperfect indicative plural
- envahîmes first-person historic indicative
- envahîtes historic indicative past
- envahirent historic indicative past
- envahirai first-person future indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce envahir?
- /ɑ̃.va.iʁ/
- \ɑ̃.va.iʁ\
- [ɑ̃.va.iʁ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to envahir
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is envahir in French?
envahir appears 4.7 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).