habituer
French, verb/a.bi.tɥe/
habituer is spelled H-A-B-I-T-U-E-R (8 letters) and appears 5.0 times per million words in written French, the 11,195th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Habituer is a French verb meaning “to get someone in the habit (of)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Faire prendre l’habitude ou une habitude”.
What does habituer mean in English?
verb
- 1
to get someone in the habit (of)
- 2
obsoleteto settle
- 3
to get used to something
Il faut s'habituer à l'accent du sud.
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Faire prendre l’habitude ou une habitude. 2. Prendre soi-même l’habitude, une habitude. 3. S’établir dans un lieu, s’y fixer. 4. S’acclimater.
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 habituer
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- habituant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- habitué participle past
- habitue first-person indicative present
- habitues indicative present second-person
- habituons first-person indicative plural
- habituez indicative plural present
- habituent indicative plural present
- habituais first-person imperfect indicative
- habituait imperfect indicative singular
- habituions first-person imperfect indicative
- habituiez imperfect indicative plural
- habituaient imperfect indicative plural
- habituai first-person historic indicative
- habituas historic indicative past
- habitua historic indicative past
- habituâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce habituer?
- /a.bi.tɥe/
- ^((h muet))\a.bi.tɥe\
- \a.bi.tɥe\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to habituer
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is habituer in French?
habituer appears 5.0 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).