lier
French, verb/lje/
lier is spelled L-I-E-R (4 letters) and appears 5.5 times per million words in written French, the 10,464th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Lier is a French verb meaning “to link” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Serrer avec une corde ou avec toute autre chose flexible”.
What does lier mean in English?
verb
- 1
to link
- 2
to associate
- 3
to thicken
lier une sauce
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Serrer avec une corde ou avec toute autre chose flexible. 2. Saisir l’oiseau avec ses serres, en parlant d'un oiseau de proie. 3. Faire un nœud. 4. Joindre différentes parties par quelque substance qui s’incorpore dans les unes et dans les autres.
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 lier
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- liant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- lié participle past
- lie first-person indicative present
- lies indicative present second-person
- lions first-person indicative plural
- liez indicative plural present
- lient indicative plural present
- liais first-person imperfect indicative
- liait imperfect indicative singular
- liions first-person imperfect indicative
- liiez imperfect indicative plural
- liaient imperfect indicative plural
- liai first-person historic indicative
- lias historic indicative past
- lia historic indicative past
- liâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce lier?
- /lje/
- /li.e/
- \li.je\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to lier
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is lier in French?
lier appears 5.5 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).