souvenir
EnglishEdit
Souvenirs from around the world. Clockwise from top, Empire State Building, New York City, New York, USA; Leaning Tower of Pisa, Pisa, Italy; Queen's Guards, London, United Kingdom; Eiffel Tower, Paris, France.
EtymologyEdit
From French souvenir (literally “memory”); compare memento.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
souvenir (plural souvenirs)
- An item of sentimental value, to remember an event or location.
- Synonyms: keepsake, memento, memorabilia
Alternative formsEdit
TranslationsEdit
item of sentimental value to remember an event or location
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VerbEdit
souvenir (third-person singular simple present souvenirs, present participle souveniring, simple past and past participle souvenired)
- (transitive) To take (an article) as a souvenir, especially illicitly, for example during wartime.
DutchEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from French souvenir.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
souvenir n (plural souvenirs, diminutive souvenirtje n)
SynonymsEdit
FrenchEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Middle French soubvenir, from Old French sovenir, from Latin subvenīre, present active infinitive of subveniō (“come to mind, occur to”), from sub + veniō. Doublet of subvenir.
PronunciationEdit
VerbEdit
souvenir
ConjugationEdit
This is a verb in a group of -ir verbs. All verbs ending in -venir, such as convenir and devenir, are conjugated this way.
Conjugation of se souvenir (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | se souvenir | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | s'être + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | se souvenant /sə suv.nɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | s'étant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | souvenu /suv.ny/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | me souviens /mə su.vjɛ̃/ |
te souviens /tə su.vjɛ̃/ |
se souvient /sə su.vjɛ̃/ |
nous souvenons /nu suv.nɔ̃/ |
vous souvenez /vu suv.ne/ |
se souviennent /sə su.vjɛn/ |
| imperfect | me souvenais /mə suv.nɛ/ |
te souvenais /tə suv.nɛ/ |
se souvenait /sə suv.nɛ/ |
nous souvenions /nu su.və.njɔ̃/ |
vous souveniez /vu su.və.nje/ |
se souvenaient /sə suv.nɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | me souvins /mə su.vɛ̃/ |
te souvins /tə su.vɛ̃/ |
se souvint /sə su.vɛ̃/ |
nous souvînmes /nu su.vɛ̃m/ |
vous souvîntes /vu su.vɛ̃t/ |
se souvinrent /sə su.vɛ̃ʁ/ | |
| future | me souviendrai /mə su.vjɛ̃.dʁe/ |
te souviendras /tə su.vjɛ̃.dʁa/ |
se souviendra /sə su.vjɛ̃.dʁa/ |
nous souviendrons /nu su.vjɛ̃.dʁɔ̃/ |
vous souviendrez /vu su.vjɛ̃.dʁe/ |
se souviendront /sə su.vjɛ̃.dʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | me souviendrais /mə su.vjɛ̃.dʁɛ/ |
te souviendrais /tə su.vjɛ̃.dʁɛ/ |
se souviendrait /sə su.vjɛ̃.dʁɛ/ |
nous souviendrions /nu su.vjɛ̃.dʁi.jɔ̃/ |
vous souviendriez /vu su.vjɛ̃.dʁi.je/ |
se souviendraient /sə su.vjɛ̃.dʁɛ/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
present perfect | present indicative of s'être + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | imperfect indicative of s'être + past participle | ||||||
| past anterior2 | past historic of s'être + past participle | ||||||
| future perfect | future of s'être + past participle | ||||||
| conditional perfect | conditional of s'être + past participle | ||||||
| subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il, qu’elle | que nous | que vous | qu’ils, qu’elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | me souvienne /mə su.vjɛn/ |
te souviennes /tə su.vjɛn/ |
se souvienne /sə su.vjɛn/ |
nous souvenions /nu su.və.njɔ̃/ |
vous souveniez /vu su.və.nje/ |
se souviennent /sə su.vjɛn/ |
| imperfect2 | me souvinsse /mə su.vɛ̃s/ |
te souvinsses /tə su.vɛ̃s/ |
se souvînt /sə su.vɛ̃/ |
nous souvinssions /nu su.vɛ̃.sjɔ̃/ |
vous souvinssiez /vu su.vɛ̃.sje/ |
se souvinssent /sə su.vɛ̃s/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of s'être + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of s'être + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | souviens-toi /su.vjɛ̃.twa/ |
— | souvenons-nous /suv.nɔ̃.nu/ |
souvenez-vous /suv.ne.vu/ |
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| compound | — | simple imperative of s'être + past participle | — | simple imperative of s'être + past participle | simple imperative of s'être + past participle | — | |
| 1 The French gerund is only usable with preposition en. | |||||||
| 2 In less formal writing or speech, the past historic, past anterior, imperfect subjunctive and pluperfect subjunctive tenses may be found to have been replaced with the indicative present perfect, indicative pluperfect, present subjunctive and past subjunctive tenses respectively (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
SynonymsEdit
NounEdit
souvenir m (plural souvenirs)
- memory (mental picture).
- Je n'ai pas le souvenir de t'avoir dit ça...
- I don't have the memory of me having told you that... (I don't remember telling you that...)
- Je n'ai pas le souvenir de t'avoir dit ça...
- souvenir
- J'ai ramené un souvenir de Paris.
- I have brought back a souvenir of Paris.
- J'ai ramené un souvenir de Paris.
Further readingEdit
- “souvenir” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).