They retained the "u" in the name, which most others, like the captain's descendants, laid aside; as Bonaparte did during his triumphant campaign in Italy, in order to un-Italianise and Frenchify his patronymic Buonaparte.
Source: tatoeba (11728889)
Frenchify
//ˈfɹɛnt͡ʃɪfaɪ//
Synonyms for "frenchify" (3 found)
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Verb(1 words)
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5 entriesTranslations
23 translations across 17 languages.
Arabic
1 entries- فَرْنَسَ verb (Translations)
Bulgarian
1 entries- пофренчвам verb (Translations)
Catalan
1 entries- afrancesar verb (Translations)
Danish
1 entries- forfranske verb (Translations)
Dutch
1 entries- verfransen verb (Translations)
Esperanto
1 entries- francigi verb (Translations)
French
2 entries- faire français verb (Translations)
- franciser verb (Translations)
Georgian
2 entries- აფრანგულებს verb (Translations)
- გააფრანგულებს verb (Translations)
German
3 entries- franzisieren verb (Translations)
- französieren verb (Translations)
- französisieren verb (Translations)
Hebrew
1 entries- צִרְפֵת verb (Translations)
Hungarian
2 entries- elfranciásít verb (Translations)
- franciásít verb (Translations)
Italian
1 entries- gallicizzare verb (Translations)
Japanese
1 entries- フランス化する verb (Translations)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- forfranske verb (Translations)
Portuguese
1 entries- afrancesar verb (Translations)
Spanish
1 entries- afrancesar verb (Translations)
Vietnamese
2 entries- Pháp hoá verb (Translations)
- Pháp hóa verb (Translations)
Sample sentences
4 total sentences available.
We're going to frenchify the decor in our home.
Source: tatoeba (12250707)
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".
Source: wiktionary
This restaurant has frenchified.
Source: wiktionary
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