franchir
French, verb/fʁɑ̃.ʃiʁ/
franchir is a French verb meaning “to clear, to cross (a line), to pass (an obstacle etc.); to get over (a fence)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Passer au-delà d’un obstacle”.
What does franchir mean in English?
verb
- 1
to clear, to cross (a line), to pass (an obstacle etc.); to get over (a fence)
Des milliers de camions franchissent la frontière chaque jour.
- 2
to cover (a distance)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Passer au-delà d’un obstacle. 2. Passer au-delà d’une limite. 3. Passer par-dessus un obstacle sans y rester échoué. 4. Passer, traverser des lieux, des endroits difficiles, de grands espaces, des frontières, etc.
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 franchir
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- franchissant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- franchi participle past
- franchis first-person indicative present
- franchit indicative present singular
- franchissons first-person indicative plural
- franchissez indicative plural present
- franchissent indicative plural present
- franchissais first-person imperfect indicative
- franchissait imperfect indicative singular
- franchissions first-person imperfect indicative
- franchissiez imperfect indicative plural
- franchissaient imperfect indicative plural
- franchîmes first-person historic indicative
- franchîtes historic indicative past
- franchirent historic indicative past
- franchirai first-person future indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce franchir?
- /fʁɑ̃.ʃiʁ/
- \fʁɑ̃.ʃiʁ\
- [fʁɑ̃.ʃiʁ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to franchir
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is franchir in French?
franchir appears 10 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).