ragaillardir
French, verb/ʁa.ɡa.jaʁ.diʁ/
ragaillardir is spelled R-A-G-A-I-L-L-A-R-D-I-R (12 letters) and appears about once in every 50 million words in written French, the 223,977th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Ragaillardir is a French verb meaning “to cheer up” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Redonner de la gaieté, de l’entrain”.
What does ragaillardir mean in English?
verb
- 1
to cheer up
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Redonner de la gaieté, de l’entrain. 2. Redevenir gaillard, solide, vaillant, puissant ; se renforcer.
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 ragaillardir
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- ragaillardissant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- ragaillardi participle past
- ragaillardis first-person indicative present
- ragaillardit indicative present singular
- ragaillardissons first-person indicative plural
- ragaillardissez indicative plural present
- ragaillardissent indicative plural present
- ragaillardissais first-person imperfect indicative
- ragaillardissait imperfect indicative singular
- ragaillardissions first-person imperfect indicative
- ragaillardissiez imperfect indicative plural
- ragaillardissaient imperfect indicative plural
- ragaillardîmes first-person historic indicative
- ragaillardîtes historic indicative past
- ragaillardirent historic indicative past
- ragaillardirai first-person future indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce ragaillardir?
- /ʁa.ɡa.jaʁ.diʁ/
- \ʁa.ɡa.jaʁ.diʁ\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to ragaillardir
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is ragaillardir in French?
ragaillardir appears about once in every 50 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).