financer
French, verb/fi.nɑ̃.se/
financer is spelled F-I-N-A-N-C-E-R (8 letters) and appears 19 times per million words in written French, the 3,908th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Financer is a French verb meaning “to fund” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Capitaliser un projet, une entreprise”.
What does financer mean in English?
verb
- 1
to fund
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Capitaliser un projet, une entreprise. 2. Apporter de l’argent ; payer. 3. Débourser de l’argent.
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 financer
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- finançant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- financé participle past
- finance first-person indicative present
- finances indicative present second-person
- finançons first-person indicative plural
- financez indicative plural present
- financent indicative plural present
- finançais first-person imperfect indicative
- finançait imperfect indicative singular
- financions first-person imperfect indicative
- financiez imperfect indicative plural
- finançaient imperfect indicative plural
- finançai first-person historic indicative
- finanças historic indicative past
- finança historic indicative past
- finançâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce financer?
- /fi.nɑ̃.se/
- \fi.nɑ̃.se\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to financer
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is financer in French?
financer appears 19 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).