requérir
French, verb/ʁə.ke.ʁiʁ/
requérir is spelled R-E-Q-U-É-R-I-R (8 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written French, the 39,702nd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Requérir is a French verb meaning “to call for, to require” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Demander, exiger”.
What does requérir mean in English?
verb
- 1
to call for, to require
- 2
to request, to summon
requérir en justice
- 3
to demand
- 4
to need
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Demander, exiger. 2. Prier, demander quelqu’un. 3. Sommer, demander de. 4. Réclamer, demander quelque chose.
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 requérir
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- requérant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- requis participle past
- requiers first-person indicative present
- requiert indicative present singular
- requérons first-person indicative plural
- requérez indicative plural present
- requièrent indicative plural present
- requérais first-person imperfect indicative
- requérait imperfect indicative singular
- requérions first-person imperfect indicative
- requériez imperfect indicative plural
- requéraient imperfect indicative plural
- requit historic indicative past
- requîmes first-person historic indicative
- requîtes historic indicative past
- requirent historic indicative past
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce requérir?
- /ʁə.ke.ʁiʁ/
- \ʁə.ke.ʁiʁ\
- [ʁə.ke.ʁiʁ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to requérir
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is requérir in French?
requérir appears about once in every 2 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).