radoucir
French, verb/ʁa.du.siʁ/
radoucir is spelled R-A-D-O-U-C-I-R (8 letters) and appears about once in every 29 million words in written French, the 172,049th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Radoucir is a French verb meaning “to sweeten” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Rendre plus doux”.
What does radoucir mean in English?
verb
- 1
to sweeten
- 2
to appease
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Rendre plus doux. 2. Rendre un métal moins cassant. 3. Apaiser, rendre moins aigre, moins rude.
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 radoucir
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- radoucissant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- radouci participle past
- radoucis first-person indicative present
- radoucit indicative present singular
- radoucissons first-person indicative plural
- radoucissez indicative plural present
- radoucissent indicative plural present
- radoucissais first-person imperfect indicative
- radoucissait imperfect indicative singular
- radoucissions first-person imperfect indicative
- radoucissiez imperfect indicative plural
- radoucissaient imperfect indicative plural
- radoucîmes first-person historic indicative
- radoucîtes historic indicative past
- radoucirent historic indicative past
- radoucirai first-person future indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce radoucir?
- /ʁa.du.siʁ/
- \ʁa.du.siʁ\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is radoucir in French?
radoucir appears about once in every 29 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).