French verbs beginning with F

263 verbs with English meanings. Select a verb to see its conjugation.

• fabriquermake; manufacture; fabricate
• fabulerto fantasize (intransitive, rare)
• facetterto facet
• faciliterto facilitate (transitive)
• factoriserto factorize (to divide an expression into a list of items that, when multiplied together, will produce the original quantity)
• facturerto charge, invoice, bill (transitive)
• faderto get stuck with (informal, reflexive)
• fagoterto bundle (transitive); to dress up (wear special clothes) (transitive)
• faiblirto weaken, to get weaker (intransitive)
• failliralmost do something; fail in a duty; go bankrupt
• fainéanterto do nothing; to be idle; to faff
• fairedo; make; cause something to happen
• faisanderallow game to develop a strong flavour through ageing; dupe
• falloirbe necessary; need to (impersonal: il faut)
• falsifierto falsify (all meanings)
• falunerTo add falun to land, in order to improve its quality
• familiariserto familiarize (transitive); to familiarize, to accustom, to acquaint oneself (reflexive)
• fanatiserto fanaticize (transitive)
• fanerto make hay (intransitive, literary); to toss, turn (grass, hay, etc.) (transitive); to fade, to wilt (literary, transitive); to fade, wither (reflexive)
• fanfaronnerto boast, swagger
• fanfrelucherto decorate with frills (transitive)
• fantasmerto fantasise
• faradiserto electrify with an induction current
• farcirto stuff; to put stuffing in something (transitive); to stuff something down or have something stuffed down one's throat, or to be force-fed; to get saddled with; to have to put up with; to roast, to bake (meat) (transitive)
• farderto disguise; to make up or paint (the face); to represent in a false light; to augment with falsehoods or affectations; to weigh heavily; to be burdensome
• farfouillerto rummage around (intransitive)
• farinerto flour (to apply flour to something)
• farterto wax skis; informal greeting, made popular by movie Brice de Nice
• fascinerto fascinate, bewitch, enthrall (transitive)
• fasciserto introduce fascist orders; to give a fascist character to
• faseyerto wave
• fatiguertire; wear out; strain
• faucardercut aquatic weeds
• faucherto mow, to reap; to run over, to knock down; to steal
• faufilerto baste; to worm one's way, to slink (about)
• fausserto falsify, to render invalid; to skew, to distort (a result)
• fauterto make a mistake, to mess up (intransitive)
• favoriserto favour, to show a preference to something; to prioritise; to promote, encourage, foster
• faxerto fax (send a document)
• fayoterto brownnose (informal)
• façonnerto work on, to shape, notably with tool(s); to fashion (transitive); to educate morally, spiritually (transitive); to perform labor (intransitive)
• feindreto fake; to feign (transitive)
• feinterto feint
• fendillerto crack, craze (transitive)
• fendreto split, to chop (wood), to crack; to shoulder (one's way through a crowd); to break (someone's heart) (figurative); to break (reflexive)
• fenêtrerto window; to provide with a window
• ferlerto furl, to roll up (a sail)
• fermenterto ferment (intransitive)
• fermerclose; shut; lock; shut down
• ferraillerto fight with swords (intransitive); to cross swords (intransitive); to fight, to struggle for (figurative); to scrap or recycle (transitive)
• ferrerto clad in iron (transitive), to be clad in iron (intransitive); to shoe (a horse); to clad in some metal, not necessarily iron; to hook (a fish)
• ferruginiserenrich with iron
• fertiliserto fertilize
• fesserto spank or smack; to whack, to strike or crash into (slang)
• festonnerto festoon
• festoyerto feast, banquet (transitive)
• feuillercut a notch in wood; cover with fresh leaves; depict foliage in art
• feuilleterto leaf through (turn the pages of (a book) rapidly reading short sections at random) (transitive); to laminate (cause to separate into thin layers) (transitive)
• feuilletiserwork the girdle of a gemstone
• feuilletoniserpublish serially; render serial
• feulerto growl
• feutrerto felt (transitive); to muffle (transitive)
• fiabiliserto make more reliable
• fiancerto get engaged (to be married) (reflexive)
• ficelerto tie up, to truss
• fichedo, put or throw (informal variant of ficher)
• ficherrecord in a file; stick in; do or put (informal); not care (s’en ficher)
• fidéliserto loyalize, to keep loyal (transitive)
• fiefferto grant a fief; to endow with a fief
• fienterto defecate, shit
• figerto freeze; to fix; to congeal; to thicken; to clot; to scare, frighten (figurative)
• fignolerto tweak, put the finishing touches to (transitive)
• figurerto appear (in a list, etc.), to be included; to represent; to imagine, picture (reflexive)
• filerspin thread; dash off; follow secretly; hand over (informal)
• fileterto fillet
• filialiserto subsidiarize; to spin off
• filigranerfiligree (to decorate something with intricate ornamentation made from gold or silver twisted wire)
• filleriseradd a fine mineral filler
• filmerfilm; record on video
• filocherto weave netting; to rush; to follow someone
• filouterswindle; steal by trickery
• filtrerto filter (transitive); to leak (secret information)
• finaliserto finalize
• financerto fund
• financiariserincrease the use or influence of finance
• finasserto finesse (transitive)
• finirfinish; end
• finlandiserto Finlandize
• fiscaliserto tax (make taxable) (transitive)
• fissurerto fissure; to crack
• fistulisercause a fistula
• fixerfasten; set a date or price; stare at
• flagellerto beat severely, with a scourge or a whip (transitive); to whip oneself as mortification (reflexive); to abuse verbally, give a tongue-lashing (transitive)
• flageolerto stagger (intransitive)
• flagornerto flatter coarsely; to toady (literary, transitive)
• flairerto smell, sniff (at) (transitive); to scent (transitive); to sense (transitive)
• flamandiserto make Flemish
• flamberto flame, flambé (transitive); to squander money, especially on gambling (figurative, transitive); (of costs, rates, etc) to rise sharply; to surge; to skyrocket (figurative, transitive); to burn, blaze (intransitive)
• flamboyerto blaze, flame (intransitive)
• flancherto drop out; pussy out; wuss out; chicken out; back down (intransitive)
• flanquerto flank, adjoin; to fling, chuck (informal); to give (informal); to stay by (someone's) side, to be someone's right-hand man
• flaquerto splash (archaic)
• flasherto flash (of a light, to have intermittent periods on and off); to flash (of a camera, to use flash photography); to take photographs using a flash; to flash (to catch a speeding vehicle on camera)
• flatterto flatter; to pet, to caress
• flegmatiserto make (an explosive) less sensitive to accidental shocks
• flemmarderto laze about, to laze around (informal)
• fleurdeliserdecorate with fleurs-de-lis; brand with a red-hot iron
• fleurerto give off (an odor); to waft; to smell, catch a waft of; to sprinkle
• fleurirto flower; to produce flowers; to bloom; to flourish
• flexibiliserto make supple, to make flexible (transitive); to become supple (intransitive)
• flinguerto gun, to gun down (informal); to commit suicide with a gun (informal, reflexive)
• flipperto freak out (informal, slang)
• flirterto flirt (intransitive)
• floconnerform snowflakes; snow
• floculerto flocculate
• floquercover with velvet; apply paint; snow
• florirto flower; to produce flowers; to bloom; to flourish
• flotterto float (intransitive); to flutter, to wave; to mill about (informal)
• flouerto swindle, con (transitive)
• fluctuerto fluctuate (to vary irregularly; to swing)
• fluerto flow; to creep
• fluidifierto fluidify
• fluidiserto make fluid
• fluoriserfluorise: add fluorine
• flânerto wander around; to loiter, mill about
• flécherto mark with arrows (transitive)
• fléchirto bend, to fold (transitive); to bend, to bend over (intransitive); to flex (eg. a muscle) (transitive); to provoke pity (figurative, transitive)
• flétrirto wither (transitive); to wither, wilt, shrivel (reflexive); to brand (as punishment) (archaic, transitive); to condemn (archaic, transitive)
• flûterplay the flute (dated); make flute-like sounds; drink heavily (dated, figurative)
• focaliserto focus; to focalize
• foirerto screw up, mess up (informal)
• foisonnerto abound, to be plentiful, to teem (with) (intransitive); to breed, multiply (said of various types of animals) (intransitive)
• foliariserto become foliar
• folichonnerto frolic
• folioternumber pages
• folkloriserto give a folkloric character; to take on a folkloric character; to indulge in folklorism
• folâtrerto frolic, gambol (intransitive)
• fomenterto foment
• foncerto darken (intransitive, transitive); to tear along (of person, vehicle etc.) (intransitive); to get a move on, go for it (informal, intransitive); to rush at (transitive)
• fonctionnaliserto functionalize
• fonctionnariserto establish as a civil servant (transitive)
• fonctionnerwork; function; operate
• fonderto found
• fondreto melt, melt down, smelt (transitive); to melt (intransitive); to melt away, waste away (intransitive); to dwindle; to diminish (intransitive)
• forcerforce; compel; strain; force open
• forcirto become stronger, fatter (intransitive)
• forcloreto debar (transitive)
• forerto bore; to drill (to make a hole)
• forfaireto forfeit (dated); to act against one's duties as a public official (dated)
• forfaitariserset a fixed rate or flat fee
• forfaitiserset a fixed amount or flat fee
• forgerto fashion metal with fire and a hammer, to forge; to forge, falsify; to create, to conceive, to make up (figurative); to coin (a word or phrase) (figurative)
• forjeterto protrude from a line or vertical
• forlancerto drive out
• forlignerto act unworthy of one's ancestors (dated); to dishonor oneself (dated)
• formaliserto formalize, legalize; to take offense
• formaterto format
• formerform; shape; train; educate
• formolerdisinfect with formalin
• formulerto formulate; to express; to word, to put into words
• forniquerto fornicate
• fortifierto fortify (make stronger)
• forwarderforward a message
• fossiliserto fossilize
• fossoyerto dig (graves, etc.) (intransitive, transitive); to bury, to put to rest (figurative, transitive); to put a ditch around (archaic, transitive)
• fouaillerto whip, lash; to attack, lambast, excoriate (figurative); to whip up (an emotion etc.); to galvanize
• foudroyerto strike (of lightning); to devastate; to cause to be thunderstruck
• fouetterto beat with a whip, to whip, to flagellate (transitive); to hit and sting like a whip (intransitive, transitive); to whisk (transitive); to stimulate or urge into action (transitive)
• fougerroot for food (of a wild boar); turn roots over with a plough (agriculture)
• fouillersearch; rummage through; frisk; excavate
• fouinerto furrow, ferret, snoop around (informal)
• fouirto dig, grub, burrow (transitive)
• foulerto stamp, to impress, to dent; to mill (transitive); to walk on, to tread, to trample (transitive); to oppress, to mistreat (transitive); to injure by knocking, bumping or dinting (transitive)
• fourberdeceive
• fourbirto furbish, burnish (transitive)
• fourcherto fork (intransitive); to make a slip of the tongue (figurative, intransitive)
• fourgonnerto stir a fire; to rummage; to search roughly
• fourguerto sell off; to flog; to get rid of, offload (something)
• fourmillerto swarm, to be full of; to tingle
• fournirprovide; supply; furnish
• fourragerto forage (intransitive); to rummage through (intransitive)
• fourrerto shove, stick, stuff (dans in something) (informal, transitive); to stuff (a turkey etc.); to fill (a cake) (transitive); to fuck, to shaft, to screw (slang, transitive, vulgar)
• fourvoyerto mislead (transitive); to make a mistake, go astray, err; to cloak
• foutreput (vulgar); do (vulgar); not care (s’en foutre, vulgar)
• fracasserto smash (to break violently) (transitive)
• fractionnerto fractionate (transitive); to divide (into fractions) (transitive)
• fracturerto fracture (transitive)
• fragiliserto weaken (transitive)
• fragmenterto split up, divide, fragment (transitive)
• fraiserto sheer (with a cutting tool)
• framboiserTo flavour with raspberries
• franchirto clear, to cross (a line), to pass (an obstacle etc.); to get over (a fence); to cover (a distance)
• franchiserto franchise
• franciserto Frenchify (transitive)
• frangerto fringe
• franklinisertreat with static electricity
• frapperhit; strike; knock; make an impression on
• fraterniserto fraternize
• frauderto commit fraud (intransitive)
• frayerto spawn, to fertilize an egg (intransitive); to open up, clear (a path, a way, etc.) (transitive); to mix, to associate (intransitive); to rub (obsolete)
• fraîchirto freshen (temperature, wind) (intransitive); to deteriorate (weather) (impersonal)
• fredonnerto hum (to make sound with lips closed)
• freinerto brake; to put a stop on, to slow down the progress of (figurative)
• frelaterto adulterate; to corrupt
• fretterto reinforce with ferrules
• fricasserto fricassee; to partake in debauchery
• fricoterto cook a stew; to flirt, knock about (with)
• frictionnerto rub, rub down, massage (transitive)
• frigorifierto refrigerate (transitive)
• frigéliserto winterize
• frimasserto form rime; to drizzle
• frimerto show off (informal)
• fringuerto dress (informal, reflexive, transitive)
• friperto crumple, crush, wrinkle
• frireto fry (to cook in hot fat)
• friseliserto tremble slightly; to cause slight trembling
• friserto curl; to graze, to pass by barely touching; to skip, to print double; to border on, verge on (figurative)
• frisoterto curl (make frizz)
• frisottercurl into small ringlets
• frissonnertremble; shiver; rustle (literary)
• fritterto fritter / sinter (transitive)
• froisserto crumple, rumple, crease (paper, fabric…); to offend, to hurt someone's feelings; to take offence, be hurt
• froncerto scowl, to frown; to gather (fabric) (transitive)
• fronderto critique (figurative); to slingshot (dated)
• frotterto rub, chafe; to scrub, scour; to scrape; to stone
• froufrouterto rustle (intransitive)
• fructidoriserto violently purge a legislative assembly (obsolete)
• fructifierto fructify
• frustrerto frustrate, to vex; to wrongly deprive
• frégaterto make a ship's hull frigate-shaped
• frémirto quiver; to shiver; to simmer
• fréquenterto frequent, to go to (a place) (transitive); to socialise with (people) (transitive); to flirt (dated)
• fréterto charter (a boat)
• frétillerto wriggle (intransitive); to wag (of a tail) (intransitive)
• frôlerto brush against, touch, skim, graze, skirt (transitive); to verge on (transitive)
• fuguerto flee, especially to run away from home, to elope
• fuirflee; run away from; avoid; leak
• fulgurerto fulgurate (to emit lightning)
• fulminerto fulminate
• fumersmoke; give off smoke; smoke food
• fumeronnerto smoke; to puff
• fumigerto fumigate
• fureterto ferret (around, about); to rummage; to browse (a website)
• fuselerto give the shape of a spindle
• fuserto melt or fuse; to gush or spurt; to ring out, sound out
• fusillerto shoot, to shoot down, to gun down (especially with a rifle, but also with other firearms)
• fusionnerto fuse, to meld
• fustigerto fustigate, to publicly criticize
• futilisermake futile
• fâcheranger; upset; get angry (se fâcher)
• fébriliserto make feverish; to become feverish
• féconderto fecundate (transitive); to fertilize (transitive); to impregnate (transitive)
• fédéraliserto federalize (transitive)
• fédérerto federate (transitive)
• féliciterto congratulate
• féminiserto feminize (make [more] feminine)
• féodaliserto feudalize
• férirto hit, strike (obsolete)
• fétichiserto fetishize
• féériserto make fairy-like
• fêlerto crack (transitive)
• fêtercelebrate; honour
• se fierto trust (someone), to rely (on someone) (reflexive)