exproprier
French, verb/ɛk.spʁɔ.pʁi.je/
exproprier is spelled E-X-P-R-O-P-R-I-E-R (10 letters) and appears about once in every 4 million words in written French, the 62,144th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Exproprier is a French verb meaning “to expropriate” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Priver (quelqu’un) d’une propriété immobilière, pour cause d’utilité publique et moyennant une indemnité”.
What does exproprier mean in English?
verb
- 1
to expropriate
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Priver (quelqu’un) d’une propriété immobilière, pour cause d’utilité publique et moyennant une indemnité.
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 exproprier
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- expropriant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- exproprié participle past
- exproprie first-person indicative present
- expropries indicative present second-person
- exproprions first-person indicative plural
- expropriez indicative plural present
- exproprient indicative plural present
- expropriais first-person imperfect indicative
- expropriait imperfect indicative singular
- expropriions first-person imperfect indicative
- expropriiez imperfect indicative plural
- expropriaient imperfect indicative plural
- expropriai first-person historic indicative
- exproprias historic indicative past
- expropria historic indicative past
- expropriâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce exproprier?
- /ɛk.spʁɔ.pʁi.je/
- \ɛks.pʁɔ.pʁi.je\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to exproprier
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is exproprier in French?
exproprier 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).