fortifier
French, verb/fɔʁ.ti.fje/
fortifier is spelled F-O-R-T-I-F-I-E-R (9 letters) and appears about once in every 1 million words in written French, the 34,908th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Fortifier is a French verb meaning “to fortify (make stronger)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Rendre fort, plus fort, robuste, plus robuste”.
What does fortifier mean in English?
verb
- 1
to fortify (make stronger)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Rendre fort, plus fort, robuste, plus robuste. 2. Faire persister, affermir. 3. Munir d’ouvrages de défense.
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 fortifier
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- fortifiant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- fortifié participle past
- fortifie first-person indicative present
- fortifies indicative present second-person
- fortifions first-person indicative plural
- fortifiez indicative plural present
- fortifient indicative plural present
- fortifiais first-person imperfect indicative
- fortifiait imperfect indicative singular
- fortifiions first-person imperfect indicative
- fortifiiez imperfect indicative plural
- fortifiaient imperfect indicative plural
- fortifiai first-person historic indicative
- fortifias historic indicative past
- fortifia historic indicative past
- fortifiâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce fortifier?
- /fɔʁ.ti.fje/
- \fɔʁ.ti.fje\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to fortifier
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is fortifier in French?
fortifier 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).