garantir
French, verb/ɡa.ʁɑ̃.tiʁ/
garantir is spelled G-A-R-A-N-T-I-R (8 letters) and appears 15 times per million words in written French, the 4,925th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Garantir is a French verb meaning “to guarantee (to assure that something will get done right)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Se porter garant, répondre d’une chose, du maintien, de l’exécution d’une chose”.
What does garantir mean in English?
verb
- 1
to guarantee (to assure that something will get done right)
- 2
to protect, preserve
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Se porter garant, répondre d’une chose, du maintien, de l’exécution d’une chose. 2. Se rendre garant de la valeur, de la qualité d’une chose. 3. Se rendre garant de l’existence de la réalité d’une chose. 4. Défendre quelqu’un contre une demande, ou l’indemniser du tort qu’il souffre par une éviction, une condamnation, 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 garantir
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- garantissant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- garanti participle past
- garantis first-person indicative present
- garantit indicative present singular
- garantissons first-person indicative plural
- garantissez indicative plural present
- garantissent indicative plural present
- garantissais first-person imperfect indicative
- garantissait imperfect indicative singular
- garantissions first-person imperfect indicative
- garantissiez imperfect indicative plural
- garantissaient imperfect indicative plural
- garantîmes first-person historic indicative
- garantîtes historic indicative past
- garantirent historic indicative past
- garantirai first-person future indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce garantir?
- /ɡa.ʁɑ̃.tiʁ/
- \ɡa.ʁɑ̃.tiʁ\
- [ɡa.ʁɑ̃.tiʁ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to garantir
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is garantir in French?
garantir appears 15 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).