exaspérer
French, verb/ɛɡ.zas.pe.ʁe/
exaspérer is spelled E-X-A-S-P-É-R-E-R (9 letters) and appears about once in every 4 million words in written French, the 65,791st most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Exaspérer is a French verb meaning “to exasperate (to frustrate)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Augmenter, accroître, aviver, exacerber”.
What does exaspérer mean in English?
verb
- 1
to exasperate (to frustrate)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Augmenter, accroître, aviver, exacerber. 2. Rendre un mal encore plus intense. 3. Aigrir, énerver, irriter à l’excès.
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 exaspérer
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- exaspérant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- exaspéré participle past
- exaspère first-person indicative present
- exaspères indicative present second-person
- exaspérons first-person indicative plural
- exaspérez indicative plural present
- exaspèrent indicative plural present
- exaspérais first-person imperfect indicative
- exaspérait imperfect indicative singular
- exaspérions first-person imperfect indicative
- exaspériez imperfect indicative plural
- exaspéraient imperfect indicative plural
- exaspérai first-person historic indicative
- exaspéras historic indicative past
- exaspéra historic indicative past
- exaspérâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce exaspérer?
- /ɛɡ.zas.pe.ʁe/
- \ɛɡ.zas.pe.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 exaspérer
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is exaspérer in French?
exaspérer appears about once in every 4 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).