évertuer
French, verb/e.vɛʁ.tɥe/
évertuer is spelled É-V-E-R-T-U-E-R (8 letters) and appears about once in every 14 million words in written French, the 123,735th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Évertuer is a French verb meaning “to strive” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Faire un effort pour réussir quelque chose ; consacrer toute son énergie à quelque chose”.
What does évertuer mean in English?
verb
- 1
to strive
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Faire un effort pour réussir quelque chose ; consacrer toute son énergie à quelque chose.
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 évertuer
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- évertuant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- évertué participle past
- évertue first-person indicative present
- évertues indicative present second-person
- évertuons first-person indicative plural
- évertuez indicative plural present
- évertuent indicative plural present
- évertuais first-person imperfect indicative
- évertuait imperfect indicative singular
- évertuions first-person imperfect indicative
- évertuiez imperfect indicative plural
- évertuaient imperfect indicative plural
- évertuai first-person historic indicative
- évertuas historic indicative past
- évertua historic indicative past
- évertuâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce évertuer?
- /e.vɛʁ.tɥe/
- \e.vɛʁ.tɥe\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is évertuer in French?
évertuer appears about once in every 14 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).