malfaire
French, verb\mal.fɛʁ\
malfaire is spelled M-A-L-F-A-I-R-E (8 letters). Malfaire is a French verb meaning “do wrong” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Faire du mal”.
What does malfaire mean in English?
verb
- 1
archaicdo wrong
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Faire du mal.
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 malfaire
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- malfaisant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- malfait participle past
- malfais first-person indicative present
- malfaisons first-person indicative plural
- malfaites indicative plural present
- malfont indicative plural present
- malfaisais first-person imperfect indicative
- malfaisait imperfect indicative singular
- malfaisions first-person imperfect indicative
- malfaisiez imperfect indicative plural
- malfaisaient imperfect indicative plural
- malfis first-person historic indicative
- malfit historic indicative past
- malfîmes first-person historic indicative
- malfîtes historic indicative past
- malfirent historic indicative past
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce malfaire?
- \mal.fɛʁ\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.