accentuer
French, verb/ak.sɑ̃.tɥe/
accentuer is a French verb meaning “to accentuate (emphasize)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Marquer d’un accent”.
What does accentuer mean in English?
verb
- 1
to accentuate (emphasize)
- 2
to intensify
- 3
to accent (put an accent on a letter or symbol etc.)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Marquer d’un accent. 2. Prononcer suivant les règles de l’accent tonique, et par extension prononcer avec netteté, avec force. 3. Donner de l’intensité à une chose. 4. Augmenter.
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 accentuer
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- accentuant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- accentué participle past
- accentue first-person indicative present
- accentues indicative present second-person
- accentuons first-person indicative plural
- accentuez indicative plural present
- accentuent indicative plural present
- accentuais first-person imperfect indicative
- accentuait imperfect indicative singular
- accentuions first-person imperfect indicative
- accentuiez imperfect indicative plural
- accentuaient imperfect indicative plural
- accentuai first-person historic indicative
- accentuas historic indicative past
- accentua historic indicative past
- accentuâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce accentuer?
- /ak.sɑ̃.tɥe/
- \ak.sɑ̃.tɥe\
- [ak.sɑ̃.tɥe]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to accentuer
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is accentuer in French?
accentuer appears 2.6 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).