exercer
French, verb/ɛɡ.zɛʁ.se/
exercer is spelled E-X-E-R-C-E-R (7 letters) and appears 18 times per million words in written French, the 4,224th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Exercer is a French verb meaning “to instruct, to command” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Dresser, former, instruire à quelque chose par des actes fréquents”.
What does exercer mean in English?
verb
- 1
to instruct, to command
exercer des soldats
- 2
to exercise
- 3
to practise, to do
Ce médecin n’exerce plus.
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Dresser, former, instruire à quelque chose par des actes fréquents. 2. Développer par des pratiques régulières. 3. Dresser un animal. 4. Faire mouvoir, pour mettre ou maintenir en état de bon fonctionnement.
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 exercer
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- exerçant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- exercé participle past
- exerce first-person indicative present
- exerces indicative present second-person
- exerçons first-person indicative plural
- exercez indicative plural present
- exercent indicative plural present
- exerçais first-person imperfect indicative
- exerçait imperfect indicative singular
- exercions first-person imperfect indicative
- exerciez imperfect indicative plural
- exerçaient imperfect indicative plural
- exerçai first-person historic indicative
- exerças historic indicative past
- exerça historic indicative past
- exerçâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce exercer?
- /ɛɡ.zɛʁ.se/
- \ɛɡ.zɛʁ.se\
- \eɡ.zɛʁ.se\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to exercer
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is exercer in French?
exercer appears 18 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).