afrancesar
Portuguese, verb/a.fɾɐ̃.seˈza(ʁ)/
afrancesar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to frenchify” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “tornar francês ou fazer ter características francesas”.
What does afrancesar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to frenchify
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. tornar francês ou fazer ter características francesas
The definition in the Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), in Portuguese.
Source: Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of afrancesar
- afranceso first-person present singular
- afrancesei first-person preterite singular
- afrancesado participle past
- afrancesares infinitive second-person singular
- afrancesarmos first-person infinitive plural
- afrancesardes infinitive plural second-person
- afrancesarem infinitive plural third-person
- afrancesando gerund
- afrancesados masculine participle past
- afrancesada feminine participle past
- afrancesadas feminine participle past
- afrancesas indicative present second-person
- afrancesa indicative present singular
- afrancesamos first-person indicative plural
- afrancesais indicative plural present
- afrancesam indicative plural present
- afrancesava first-person imperfect indicative
- afrancesavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce afrancesar?
- Brazil /a.fɾɐ̃.seˈza(ʁ)/
- Brazil [a.fɾɐ̃.seˈza(h)]
- /a.fɾɐ̃.seˈza(ɾ)/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.