nécessiter
French, verb/ne.se.si.te/
nécessiter is spelled N-É-C-E-S-S-I-T-E-R (10 letters) and appears 1.4 times per million words in written French, the 25,237th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Nécessiter is a French verb meaning “to require” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Rendre une chose nécessaire”.
What does nécessiter mean in English?
verb
- 1
to require
- 2
to call for
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Rendre une chose nécessaire. 2. Contraindre, forcer à agir. 3. Impliquer comme conséquence nécessaire.
verb: 1. Ancienne orthographe (avant 1740) de nécessiter ^([1]).
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 nécessiter
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- nécessitant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- nécessité participle past
- nécessite first-person indicative present
- nécessites indicative present second-person
- nécessitons first-person indicative plural
- nécessitez indicative plural present
- nécessitent indicative plural present
- nécessitais first-person imperfect indicative
- nécessitait imperfect indicative singular
- nécessitions first-person imperfect indicative
- nécessitiez imperfect indicative plural
- nécessitaient imperfect indicative plural
- nécessitai first-person historic indicative
- nécessitas historic indicative past
- nécessita historic indicative past
- nécessitâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce nécessiter?
- /ne.se.si.te/
- \ne.se.si.te\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to nécessiter
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is nécessiter in French?
nécessiter appears 1.4 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).