germaniser
French, verb/ʒɛʁ.ma.ni.ze/
germaniser is spelled G-E-R-M-A-N-I-S-E-R (10 letters) and appears about once in every 29 million words in written French, the 172,049th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Germaniser is a French verb meaning “to Germanize” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Rendre proche de la langue ou de la culture allemande”.
What does germaniser mean in English?
verb
- 1
to Germanize
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Rendre proche de la langue ou de la culture allemande. 2. Donner un tour, une forme germanique à un mot, à une phrase.
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 germaniser
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- germanisant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- germanisé participle past
- germanise first-person indicative present
- germanises indicative present second-person
- germanisons first-person indicative plural
- germanisez indicative plural present
- germanisent indicative plural present
- germanisais first-person imperfect indicative
- germanisait imperfect indicative singular
- germanisions first-person imperfect indicative
- germanisiez imperfect indicative plural
- germanisaient imperfect indicative plural
- germanisai first-person historic indicative
- germanisas historic indicative past
- germanisa historic indicative past
- germanisâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce germaniser?
- /ʒɛʁ.ma.ni.ze/
- \ʒɛʁ.ma.ni.ze\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to germaniser
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is germaniser in French?
germaniser appears about once in every 29 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).