Frenchify

English

Alternative forms

• frenchify

Etymology

French +‎ -ify.

Pronunciation

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

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Verb

Frenchify (third-person singular simple present Frenchif, present participle ies, simple past and past participle Frenchified)

1. (transitive) To make (something) (more) French in appearance, form, character or manners.

   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 (more) French.

   (The addition of quotations indicative of this usage is being sought:)

Related terms

• francization, francisation

Translations

Translations

• Arabic: فَرْنَسَ (farnasa)
• Catalan: afrancesar (ca)
• Danish: forfranske (da)
• Dutch: verfransen (nl)
• French: franciser (fr)
• German: franzisieren, französisieren (de), französieren (de)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: forfranske (no)

• Portuguese: afrancesar
• Spanish: afrancesar (es)

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