# augmenter

- **Language:** French
- **Level:** B1 (Intermediate)
- **Part of speech:** verb
- **Pronunciation:** /og.mɑ̃.te/
- **English:** increase
- **Persian:** افزایش یافتن؛ افزایش
- **Definition:** To become bigger or to make something bigger.

## Example

> Les prix ont augmenté de dix pour cent.
> Prices increased by ten percent.
> قیمت‌ها ده درصد افزایش یافت.

## Word forms

- noun: augmentation

## Opposites

diminuer

## Common phrases

- augmenter les prix
- une forte hausse
- augmenter le risque

## Related words

- [diminuer](https://langai.darkube.ir/vocabulary/french/diminuer): decrease (B1)
- [apparaître](https://langai.darkube.ir/vocabulary/french/apparaitre): appear (B1)
- [développer](https://langai.darkube.ir/vocabulary/french/developper): develop (B1)
- [améliorer](https://langai.darkube.ir/vocabulary/french/ameliorer): improve (B1)
- [réduire](https://langai.darkube.ir/vocabulary/french/reduire): reduce (B1)
- [acquérir](https://langai.darkube.ir/vocabulary/french/acquerir): acquire (B2)
- [s'adapter](https://langai.darkube.ir/vocabulary/french/s-adapter): adapt (B2)
- [la conséquence](https://langai.darkube.ir/vocabulary/french/consequence): consequence (B2)

Source: https://langai.darkube.ir/vocabulary/french/augmenter