frenchify

English

Alternative forms

• Frenchify

Etymology

From French +‎ -ify.

Pronunciation

• enPR: frĕnchʹĭfī, IPA^(key): /ˈfɹɛnt͡ʃɪfaɪ/

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Verb

frenchify (third-person singular simple present frenchifies, present participle frenchifying, simple past and past participle frenchified)

1. (transitive) To make French or more French-like in any way.

   This café likes to frenchify the names of its dishes to make them sound better than they actually are — they call their fish and chips "poisson-frites".

2. (intransitive) To become French or more French-like.

   This restaurant has frenchified.

3. (transitive, uncommon) Synonym of gallicize, to translate into the French language.

Synonyms

• francize, gallicize

Derived terms

• frenchification

Translations

Translations

• Arabic: فَرْنَسَ (farnasa)
• Bulgarian: пофренчвам (pofrenčvam)
• Catalan: afrancesar (ca)
• Danish: forfranske (da)
• Dutch: verfransen (nl)
• Esperanto: francigi (eo)
• French: franciser (fr), faire français
• German: franzisieren, französisieren (de), französieren (de)
• Hungarian: franciásít, elfranciásít
• Italian: gallicizzare
• Japanese: フランス化する (furansu-ka-suru)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: forfranske (no)

• Portuguese: afrancesar (pt)
• Spanish: afrancesar (es)
• Vietnamese: Pháp hóa, Pháp hoá

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• Swedish: förfranska (sv)
• Turkish: Fransızcalaştırmak, Fransızlaştırmak (transitive), Fransızcalaşmak, Fransızlaşmak (intransitive)