légiférer
French, verb/le.ʒi.fe.ʁe/
légiférer is spelled L-É-G-I-F-É-R-E-R (9 letters) and appears 1.6 times per million words in written French, the 23,795th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Légiférer is a French verb meaning “to legislate (to pass laws)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Édicter des lois”.
What does légiférer mean in English?
verb
- 1
to legislate (to pass laws)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Édicter des lois. 2. Se référer à la loi, se justifier en argumentant par des choses que l’on tient pour véridiques et universelles.
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 légiférer
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- légiférant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- légiféré participle past
- légifère first-person indicative present
- légifères indicative present second-person
- légiférons first-person indicative plural
- légiférez indicative plural present
- légifèrent indicative plural present
- légiférais first-person imperfect indicative
- légiférait imperfect indicative singular
- légiférions first-person imperfect indicative
- légifériez imperfect indicative plural
- légiféraient imperfect indicative plural
- légiférai first-person historic indicative
- légiféras historic indicative past
- légiféra historic indicative past
- légiférâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce légiférer?
- /le.ʒi.fe.ʁe/
- \le.ʒi.fe.ʁe\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to légiférer
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is légiférer in French?
légiférer appears 1.6 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).