trier
French, verb/tʁi.je/
trier is a French verb meaning “to sort, to sort out” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Séparer ce que l'on souhaite garder et ce que l'on souhaite jeter”.
What does trier mean in English?
verb
- 1
to sort, to sort out
Trier le tas de lettres.
- 2
to grade; to calibrate
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Séparer ce que l'on souhaite garder et ce que l'on souhaite jeter. 2. Choisir dans un ensemble, séparer du reste, répartir suivant la qualité, le genre, etc. 3. (notamment dans le domaine de l’informatique) Classer, ranger selon un ordre déterminé, alphabétique, numérique, par numéro, par date…
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 trier
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- triant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- trié participle past
- trie first-person indicative present
- tries indicative present second-person
- trions first-person indicative plural
- triez indicative plural present
- trient indicative plural present
- triais first-person imperfect indicative
- triait imperfect indicative singular
- triions first-person imperfect indicative
- triiez imperfect indicative plural
- triaient imperfect indicative plural
- triai first-person historic indicative
- trias historic indicative past
- tria historic indicative past
- triâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce trier?
- /tʁi.je/
- \tʁi.je\
- [tʁi.je]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to trier
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is trier in French?
trier appears 3.2 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).