faiblir
French, verb/fɛ.bliʁ/
faiblir is spelled F-A-I-B-L-I-R (7 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written French, the 43,335th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Faiblir is a French verb meaning “to weaken, to get weaker” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Devenir faible”.
What does faiblir mean in English?
verb
- 1
to weaken, to get weaker
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Devenir faible. 2. Diminuer. 3. Ne plus pouvoir résister, fléchir, céder.
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 faiblir
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- faiblissant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- faibli participle past
- faiblis first-person indicative present
- faiblit indicative present singular
- faiblissons first-person indicative plural
- faiblissez indicative plural present
- faiblissent indicative plural present
- faiblissais first-person imperfect indicative
- faiblissait imperfect indicative singular
- faiblissions first-person imperfect indicative
- faiblissiez imperfect indicative plural
- faiblissaient imperfect indicative plural
- faiblîmes first-person historic indicative
- faiblîtes historic indicative past
- avoir faibli infinitive past
- en faiblissant gerund present
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce faiblir?
- /fɛ.bliʁ/
- /fe.bliʁ/
- \fe.bliʁ\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is faiblir in French?
faiblir appears about once in every 2 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).