motoriser
French, verb\mɔ.tɔ.ʁi.ze\
motoriser is spelled M-O-T-O-R-I-S-E-R (9 letters) and appears about once in every 17 million words in written French, the 133,661st most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Motoriser is a French verb meaning “to motorize (to provide with a motor or motors)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Doter (un objet, un outil, un véhicule…) d'un moteur”.
What does motoriser mean in English?
verb
- 1
to motorize (to provide with a motor or motors)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Doter (un objet, un outil, un véhicule…) d'un moteur. 2. Doter de véhicules à moteur ou de machines à moteur.
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 motoriser
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- motorisant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- motorisé participle past
- motorise first-person indicative present
- motorises indicative present second-person
- motorisons first-person indicative plural
- motorisez indicative plural present
- motorisent indicative plural present
- motorisais first-person imperfect indicative
- motorisait imperfect indicative singular
- motorisions first-person imperfect indicative
- motorisiez imperfect indicative plural
- motorisaient imperfect indicative plural
- motorisai first-person historic indicative
- motorisas historic indicative past
- motorisa historic indicative past
- motorisâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce motoriser?
- \mɔ.tɔ.ʁi.ze\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is motoriser in French?
motoriser appears about once in every 17 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).