exiger
French, verb/ɛɡ.zi.ʒe/
exiger is spelled E-X-I-G-E-R (6 letters) and appears 8.1 times per million words in written French, the 7,805th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Exiger is a French verb meaning “to demand, require” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Demander quelque chose en vertu d’un droit légitime ou prétendu tel”.
What does exiger mean in English?
verb
- 1
to demand, require
une tâche qui exige des compétences
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Demander quelque chose en vertu d’un droit légitime ou prétendu tel. 2. Obliger à certaines choses, astreindre à certains devoirs ; en parlant des choses morales. 3. Nécessiter de manière impérieuse.
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 exiger
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- exigeant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- exigé participle past
- exige first-person indicative present
- exiges indicative present second-person
- exigeons first-person indicative plural
- exigez indicative plural present
- exigent indicative plural present
- exigeais first-person imperfect indicative
- exigeait imperfect indicative singular
- exigions first-person imperfect indicative
- exigiez imperfect indicative plural
- exigeaient imperfect indicative plural
- exigeai first-person historic indicative
- exigeas historic indicative past
- exigea historic indicative past
- exigeâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce exiger?
- /ɛɡ.zi.ʒe/
- \eɡ.zi.ʒe\
- \ɛɡ.zi.ʒe\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to exiger
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is exiger in French?
exiger appears 8.1 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).