soulever
French, verb/sul.ve/
soulever is a French verb meaning “to raise, to lift up, to pick up” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Lever à une faible hauteur”.
What does soulever mean in English?
verb
- 1
to raise, to lift up, to pick up
- 2
to stir up (emotions), to rouse (interest)
- 3
to revolt, to rise up (against)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Lever à une faible hauteur. 2. Faire lever ; mouvoir. 3. Exciter à la rébellion, à la révolte. 4. Se rebeller ; se révolter.
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 soulever
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- soulevant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- soulevé participle past
- soulève first-person indicative present
- soulèves indicative present second-person
- soulevons first-person indicative plural
- soulevez indicative plural present
- soulèvent indicative plural present
- soulevais first-person imperfect indicative
- soulevait imperfect indicative singular
- soulevions first-person imperfect indicative
- souleviez imperfect indicative plural
- soulevaient imperfect indicative plural
- soulevai first-person historic indicative
- soulevas historic indicative past
- souleva historic indicative past
- soulevâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce soulever?
- /sul.ve/
- \sul.ve\
- [sul.ve]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to soulever
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is soulever in French?
soulever appears 7.6 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).