moderniser
French, verb/mɔ.dɛʁ.ni.ze/
moderniser is spelled M-O-D-E-R-N-I-S-E-R (10 letters) and appears 2.4 times per million words in written French, the 18,424th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Moderniser is a French verb meaning “to modernize” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Organiser d’une façon moderne ; adapter aux goûts ou aux besoins modernes”.
What does moderniser mean in English?
verb
- 1
to modernize
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Organiser d’une façon moderne ; adapter aux goûts ou aux besoins modernes.
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 moderniser
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- modernisant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- modernisé participle past
- modernise first-person indicative present
- modernises indicative present second-person
- modernisons first-person indicative plural
- modernisez indicative plural present
- modernisent indicative plural present
- modernisais first-person imperfect indicative
- modernisait imperfect indicative singular
- modernisions first-person imperfect indicative
- modernisiez imperfect indicative plural
- modernisaient imperfect indicative plural
- modernisai first-person historic indicative
- modernisas historic indicative past
- modernisa historic indicative past
- modernisâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce moderniser?
- /mɔ.dɛʁ.ni.ze/
- \mɔ.dɛʁ.ni.ze\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to moderniser
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is moderniser in French?
moderniser appears 2.4 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).