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)

(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".
(intransitive) To become French or more French-like.
This restaurant has frenchified.
(transitive, uncommon) Synonym of gallicize, to translate into the French language.

Synonyms

francize, gallicize

Derived terms

frenchification

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
Spanish: afrancesar (es)
Vietnamese: Pháp hóa, Pháp hoá

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