expatrié
French, noun
expatrié is spelled E-X-P-A-T-R-I-É (8 letters) and appears about once in every 1 million words in written French, the 36,757th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Expatrié is a French masculine noun meaning “an expatriate, an expat” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a past participle of expatrier. Without its accent, expatrie is a different word: “first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Personne qui est expatriée, qui s’expatrie”.
What does expatrié mean in English?
adjective
- 1
expatriate
noun
- 1
masculinean expatriate, an expat
verb
- 1
past participle of expatrier
verb
- 1
first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
- 2
second-person singular imperative
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. Qui a quitté sa patrie. 2. Qui a quitté un lieu où il a de fortes attaches.
noun: 1. Personne qui est expatriée, qui s’expatrie. 2. Personne qui quitte un lieu où il a de fortes attaches.
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 expatrié
- expatriée feminine
- expatriés masculine plural
- expatriées feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to expatrié
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is expatrié in French?
expatrié appears about once in every 1 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).