exagérer
French, verb/ɛɡ.za.ʒe.ʁe/
exagérer is spelled E-X-A-G-É-R-E-R (8 letters) and appears 2.4 times per million words in written French, the 18,424th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Exagérer is a French verb meaning “to exaggerate” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Donner à une chose plus d’importance qu’elle n’en a en réalité”.
What does exagérer mean in English?
verb
- 1
to exaggerate
- 2
to go too far
Je n'ai rien dit quand c'était seulement un peu de jalousie, mais là, tu exagères vraiment.
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Donner à une chose plus d’importance qu’elle n’en a en réalité. 2. Faire valoir, faire ressortir. 3. Dépasser la juste mesure dans ses propos ou ses actes. 4. Se faire de quelque chose une idée excessive.
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 exagérer
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- exagérant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- exagéré participle past
- exagère first-person indicative present
- exagères indicative present second-person
- exagérons first-person indicative plural
- exagérez indicative plural present
- exagèrent indicative plural present
- exagérais first-person imperfect indicative
- exagérait imperfect indicative singular
- exagérions first-person imperfect indicative
- exagériez imperfect indicative plural
- exagéraient imperfect indicative plural
- exagérai first-person historic indicative
- exagéras historic indicative past
- exagéra historic indicative past
- exagérâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce exagérer?
- /ɛɡ.za.ʒe.ʁe/
- \ɛ.ɡza.ʒe.ʁe\
- \e.ɡza.ʒe.ʁe\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to exagérer
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is exagérer in French?
exagérer appears 2.4 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).