trahir
French, verb/tʁa.iʁ/
trahir is spelled T-R-A-H-I-R (6 letters) and appears 4.2 times per million words in written French, the 12,736th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Trahir is a French verb meaning “to betray” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Faire une perfidie à quelqu’un ; lui manquer de foi”.
What does trahir mean in English?
verb
- 1
to betray
Ils ne doivent pas trahir la confiance que nous avons placée en eux en commettant des actes de violence aveugle.
- 2
to give away, to reveal
Son regard trahissait sa réprobation.
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Faire une perfidie à quelqu’un ; lui manquer de foi. 2. Manquer de respect ou de considération, en parlant des choses. 3. Livrer son pays, sa patrie ; agir par perfidie contre la sécurité de son pays. 4. Découvrir ou révéler ce qu’on voulait tenir caché.
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 trahir
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- trahissant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- trahi participle past
- trahis first-person indicative present
- trahit indicative present singular
- trahissons first-person indicative plural
- trahissez indicative plural present
- trahissent indicative plural present
- trahissais first-person imperfect indicative
- trahissait imperfect indicative singular
- trahissions first-person imperfect indicative
- trahissiez imperfect indicative plural
- trahissaient imperfect indicative plural
- trahîmes first-person historic indicative
- trahîtes historic indicative past
- trahirent historic indicative past
- trahirai first-person future indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce trahir?
- /tʁa.iʁ/
- \tʁa.iʁ\
- [tʁa.iʁ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to trahir
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is trahir in French?
trahir appears 4.2 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).