🇫🇷French Source WordCode: FR

encourager

Pronunciation / Transliteration: encourager

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Encourage/ɪnˈkʌr.ɪdʒ/
verbCEFR B1 (Intermediate)Top #1450 frequency
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🇫🇷 Example Sentence in French:

"Il faut encourager les jeunes à lire."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

1 sense
As verb
  1. 1

    To give support, confidence, or hope to someone.

    "Her teacher encouraged her to enter the writing competition."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Late Middle English: from Old French encoragier, from en- 'in, put in' + corage 'courage'.

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