personnifier
French, verb/pɛʁ.sɔ.ni.fje/
personnifier is spelled P-E-R-S-O-N-N-I-F-I-E-R (12 letters) and appears about once in every 6 million words in written French, the 82,784th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Personnifier is a French verb meaning “to personify” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Attribuer à une idée ou à une force de la nature la figure, les sentiments, le langage, etc., d’une personne…”.
What does personnifier mean in English?
verb
- 1
to personify
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Attribuer à une idée ou à une force de la nature la figure, les sentiments, le langage, etc., d’une personne réelle. 2. Offrir dans sa personne l’image d’une vertu ou d’un vice.
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 personnifier
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- personnifiant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- personnifié participle past
- personnifie first-person indicative present
- personnifies indicative present second-person
- personnifions first-person indicative plural
- personnifiez indicative plural present
- personnifient indicative plural present
- personnifiais first-person imperfect indicative
- personnifiait imperfect indicative singular
- personnifiions first-person imperfect indicative
- personnifiiez imperfect indicative plural
- personnifiaient imperfect indicative plural
- personnifiai first-person historic indicative
- personnifias historic indicative past
- personnifia historic indicative past
- personnifiâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce personnifier?
- /pɛʁ.sɔ.ni.fje/
- \pɛʁ.sɔ.ni.fje\
- [pɛʁ.sɔ.ni.fje]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to personnifier
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is personnifier in French?
personnifier appears about once in every 6 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).