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vulgariser

French, verb/vyl.ɡa.ʁi.ze/

vulgariser is a French verb meaning “to generalize” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Mettre à la portée de toutes les intelligences des notions de science et d’art”.

What does vulgariser mean in English?

verb

  1. 1

    to generalize

Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How French dictionaries define it

verb: 1. Mettre à la portée de toutes les intelligences des notions de science et d’art.

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 vulgariser

  • avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
  • vulgarisant gerund participle present
  • ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
  • vulgarisé participle past
  • vulgarise first-person indicative present
  • vulgarises indicative present second-person
  • vulgarisons first-person indicative plural
  • vulgarisez indicative plural present
  • vulgarisent indicative plural present
  • vulgarisais first-person imperfect indicative
  • vulgarisait imperfect indicative singular
  • vulgarisions first-person imperfect indicative
  • vulgarisiez imperfect indicative plural
  • vulgarisaient imperfect indicative plural
  • vulgarisai first-person historic indicative
  • vulgarisas historic indicative past
  • vulgarisa historic indicative past
  • vulgarisâmes first-person historic indicative

Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce vulgariser?

  • /vyl.ɡa.ʁi.ze/
  • \vyl.ɡa.ʁi.ze\
  • [vyl.ɡa.ʁi.ze]

Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

English words that translate to vulgariser

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is vulgariser in French?

vulgariser 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).