gratifier
French, verb/ɡʁa.ti.fje/
gratifier is spelled G-R-A-T-I-F-I-E-R (9 letters) and appears about once in every 4 million words in written French, the 68,150th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Gratifier is a French verb meaning “to gratify” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Favoriser quelqu’un en lui faisant un don, une libéralité”.
What does gratifier mean in English?
verb
- 1
to gratify
- 2
to reward
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Favoriser quelqu’un en lui faisant un don, une libéralité. 2. Attribuer mal à propos quelque chose à quelqu’un. 3. Infliger, en parlant de sanctions, de coups, 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 gratifier
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- gratifiant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- gratifié participle past
- gratifie first-person indicative present
- gratifies indicative present second-person
- gratifions first-person indicative plural
- gratifiez indicative plural present
- gratifient indicative plural present
- gratifiais first-person imperfect indicative
- gratifiait imperfect indicative singular
- gratifiions first-person imperfect indicative
- gratifiiez imperfect indicative plural
- gratifiaient imperfect indicative plural
- gratifiai first-person historic indicative
- gratifias historic indicative past
- gratifia historic indicative past
- gratifiâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce gratifier?
- /ɡʁa.ti.fje/
- \ɡʁa.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 gratifier
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is gratifier in French?
gratifier appears about once in every 4 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).