paulien
French, adjective/pɔ.ljɛ̃/
paulien is a French adjective meaning “taken against a fraudulent debtor” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Usité dans la locution action paulienne, qui caractérise une action engagée par un créancier contre un…”.
What does paulien mean in English?
adjective
- 1
taken against a fraudulent debtor
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. Usité dans la locution action paulienne, qui caractérise une action engagée par un créancier contre un débiteur qui a fait un acte en fraude de ses droits.
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 paulien
- paulienne feminine
- pauliens masculine plural
- pauliennes feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce paulien?
- /pɔ.ljɛ̃/
- \po.ljɛ̃\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is paulien in French?
paulien appears about once in every 24 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).