exprimer
French, verb/ɛk.spʁi.me/
exprimer is a French verb meaning “to express” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Faire sortir le suc, le jus d’une herbe, d’un fruit, etc., en les pressant”.
What does exprimer mean in English?
verb
- 1
to express
- 2
to express oneself
Je me suis mal exprimé.
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Faire sortir le suc, le jus d’une herbe, d’un fruit, etc., en les pressant. 2. Manifester une pensée, un sentiment, une volonté par tel ou tel moyen, en particulier par le langage. 3. Parler. 4. Faire sortir de soi ce que l’on a à l'intérieur (idées, émotions, sentiments), dans le but de le faire vivre et de le communiquer.
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 exprimer
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- exprimant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- exprimé participle past
- exprime first-person indicative present
- exprimes indicative present second-person
- exprimons first-person indicative plural
- exprimez indicative plural present
- expriment indicative plural present
- exprimais first-person imperfect indicative
- exprimait imperfect indicative singular
- exprimions first-person imperfect indicative
- exprimiez imperfect indicative plural
- exprimaient imperfect indicative plural
- exprimai first-person historic indicative
- exprimas historic indicative past
- exprima historic indicative past
- exprimâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce exprimer?
- /ɛk.spʁi.me/
- \ɛks.pʁi.me\
- [ɛk.spʁi.me]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to exprimer
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is exprimer in French?
exprimer appears 34 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).