étudier
French, verb/e.ty.dje/
étudier is spelled É-T-U-D-I-E-R (7 letters) and appears 30 times per million words in written French, the 2,714th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Étudier is a French verb meaning “to study” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “S’appliquer à acquérir des connaissances ou des capacités dans un domaine déterminé”.
What does étudier mean in English?
verb
- 1
to study
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. S’appliquer à acquérir des connaissances ou des capacités dans un domaine déterminé. 2. Faire ses études, suivre des cours. 3. S’exercer sur un instrument de musique. 4. S’exercer, s’appliquer à apprendre une science, un art, à comprendre un auteur, à connaître toutes les circonstances d’une affaire, les causes d’un phénomène, etc.
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 étudier
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- étudiant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- étudié participle past
- étudie first-person indicative present
- étudies indicative present second-person
- étudions first-person indicative plural
- étudiez indicative plural present
- étudient indicative plural present
- étudiais first-person imperfect indicative
- étudiait imperfect indicative singular
- étudiions first-person imperfect indicative
- étudiiez imperfect indicative plural
- étudiaient imperfect indicative plural
- étudiai first-person historic indicative
- étudias historic indicative past
- étudia historic indicative past
- étudiâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce étudier?
- /e.ty.dje/
- \e.ty.dje\
- [e.ty.dje]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to étudier
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is étudier in French?
étudier 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).