sulfater
French, verb/syl.fa.te/
sulfater is spelled S-U-L-F-A-T-E-R (8 letters) and appears about once in every 51 million words in written French, the 226,484th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Sulfater is a French verb meaning “to sulfate” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Traiter (des plantes) au sulfate, ou par extension avec un fongicide, par exemple les vignes pour prévenir le…”.
What does sulfater mean in English?
verb
- 1
to sulfate
- 2
to spray copper sulfate solution (as a fungicide)
- 3
to shoot a gun at someone or something
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Traiter (des plantes) au sulfate, ou par extension avec un fongicide, par exemple les vignes pour prévenir le mildiou. 2. Tirer avec une arme à feu sur une personne ou un objet. 3. Molécule à base de souffre, chargée négativement (appelée anion). De formule chimique SO₄²⁻, il s'agit du sel constituant principalement l'acide sulfurique.
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 sulfater
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- sulfatant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- sulfaté participle past
- sulfate first-person indicative present
- sulfates indicative present second-person
- sulfatons first-person indicative plural
- sulfatez indicative plural present
- sulfatent indicative plural present
- sulfatais first-person imperfect indicative
- sulfatait imperfect indicative singular
- sulfations first-person imperfect indicative
- sulfatiez imperfect indicative plural
- sulfataient imperfect indicative plural
- sulfatai first-person historic indicative
- sulfatas historic indicative past
- sulfata historic indicative past
- sulfatâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce sulfater?
- /syl.fa.te/
- \syl.fa.te\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is sulfater in French?
sulfater appears about once in every 51 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).