investir
French, verb/ɛ̃.vɛs.tiʁ/
investir is spelled I-N-V-E-S-T-I-R (8 letters) and appears 21 times per million words in written French, the 3,602nd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Investir is a French verb meaning “to invest” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Mettre en possession d’un titre ou d’une dignité, avec certaines formalités, avec certaines cérémonies”.
What does investir mean in English?
verb
- 1
to invest
- 2
to lay siege to, to besiege
- 3
to install into office, to vest, to give formal authority to
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Mettre en possession d’un titre ou d’une dignité, avec certaines formalités, avec certaines cérémonies. 2. Mettre en possession d’un pouvoir, d’une autorité quelconque. 3. Cerner, entourer avec des troupes une citadelle, une place de guerre, etc.; environner militairement une maison, de manière à empêcher l’entrée et la sortie. 4. Envahir ou occuper de manière massive, abusive ou fâcheuse un lieu.
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 investir
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- investissant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- investi participle past
- investis first-person indicative present
- investit indicative present singular
- investissons first-person indicative plural
- investissez indicative plural present
- investissent indicative plural present
- investissais first-person imperfect indicative
- investissait imperfect indicative singular
- investissions first-person imperfect indicative
- investissiez imperfect indicative plural
- investissaient imperfect indicative plural
- investîmes first-person historic indicative
- investîtes historic indicative past
- investirent historic indicative past
- investirai first-person future indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce investir?
- /ɛ̃.vɛs.tiʁ/
- \ɛ̃.vɛs.tiʁ\
- [ɛ̃.vɛs.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 investir
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is investir in French?
investir appears 21 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).