souvenir

See also: Souvenir

Contents

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

• Hyphenation: sou‧ve‧nir
• IPA^(key): /ˌsuːvəˈnɪə(ɹ)/
• Rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)

NounEdit

souvenir (plural souvenirs)

1. An item of sentimental value, to remember an event or location.

   Synonyms: keepsake, memento, memorabilia

Alternative formsEdit

• souvenier

TranslationsEdit

item of sentimental value to remember an event or location

• Albanian: suvenir m
• Arabic: تَذْكار‎ m (taḏkār)
• Armenian: հուշանվեր (hy) (hušanver)
• Azeri: xatirə (az), suvenir
• Belarusian: сувені́р m (suvjenír), сувэні́р m (suvenír) (taraškievica)
• Bengali: স্মারকগ্রন্থ (smarôkôgrônth)
• Bulgarian: сувени́р m (suvenír)
• Catalan: record (ca) m
• Cebuano: handomanan
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 紀念品 (zh), 纪念品 (zh) (jìniànpǐn)

  Min Nan: 紀念品, 纪念品 (kí-liām-phín)

• Czech: suvenýr m
• Danish: souvenir (da) c
• Dutch: aandenken (nl) n, souvenir (nl) n
• Esperanto: memoraĵo
• Estonian: suveniir
• Faroese: minnislutur m
• Finnish: matkamuisto (fi), muistoesine
• French: souvenir (fr) m
• Georgian: სახსოვარი (saxsovari)
• German: Andenken n, Reisemitbringsel n, Souvenir (de) n, Erinnerungsstück n
• Greek: ενθύμιο (el) n (enthýmio)
• Hebrew: מַזכֶּרֶת‎ m (mazkeret)
• Hindi: यादगार (hi) f (yādgār)
• Hungarian: szuvenír (hu)
• Icelandic: minjagripur m, minningargripur m
• Ido: suveniro (io)
• Indonesian: suvenir (id)
• Irish: cuimhneachán m
• Italian: ricordo (it) m
• Japanese: 土産 (みやげ, miyage), 記念品 (きねんひん, kinenhin)
• Kazakh: кәдесый (kädesıy)
• Korean: 기념품 (ko) (ginyeompum) (記念品 (ko)), 선물 (ko) (seonmul) (膳物)
• Kyrgyz: сувенир (suvenir), азембелек (azembelek)

• Lao: ທີ່ລະລຶກ (thī la lưk)
• Latin: mnēmosȳnum n
• Latvian: suvenīrs m
• Lithuanian: suvenyras m
• Macedonian: сувенир m (suvenir)
• Maori: manatunga
• Mongolian: бэлэг дурсгал (beleg dursgal)
• Navajo: bee ééhániihii
• Norman: souv'nîn m (Jersey)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: suvenir m

  Nynorsk: suvenir m

• Persian: یادگاری‎ (fa) (yâdegâri), سوغاتی‎ (sowğâti)
• Polish: pamiątka (pl) f
• Portuguese: suvenir (pt) m
• Romanian: suvenir (ro) n
• Russian: сувени́р (ru) m (suvenír)
• Scottish Gaelic: cuimhneachan m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: сувенир m, успомена f

  Roman: suvènīr (sh) m uspomena (sh) f

• Slovak: suvenír m
• Slovene: spominek m
• Spanish: recuerdo (es) m
• Swedish: souvenir (sv) c
• Tagalog: daol, pang-alaala
• Tajik: тӯҳфа (tühfa), савғотӣ (savġotī), савғот (savġot), ёдгор (yodgor)
• Thai: ที่ระลึก (tîi-rá-lʉ́k)
• Turkish: hatıra (tr), hediyelik eşya
• Turkmen: suwenir, ýadygärlik
• Ukrainian: сувені́р m (suvenír)
• Urdu: یادگار‎ f (yādgār)
• Uzbek: suvenir (uz), yodgorlik (uz), esdalik (uz)
• Vietnamese: đồ lưu niệm
• Yiddish: אָנדענק‎ m (ondenk)

---

DutchEdit

PronunciationEdit

• Audio

  (file)

• Hyphenation: sou‧ve‧nir

EtymologyEdit

Borrowing from French souvenir

NounEdit

souvenir n (plural souvenirs, diminutive souvenirtje n)

1. souvenir

SynonymsEdit

• aandenken
• gedachtenis

---

FrenchEdit

EtymologyEdit

Middle French soubvenir, from Old French sovenir, from Latin subvenīre, present active infinitive of subveniō (“come to mind, occur to”), from sub + veniō.

PronunciationEdit

• audio

  (file)

• IPA^(key): /su.və.niʁ/, /suv.niʁ/

VerbEdit

souvenir

1. (reflexive, with de) to remember

   Je me souviens de toi.

   I remember you.

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)

		simple			compound
infinitive		se souvenir			s'être souvenu
gerund		en se souvenant			en s'étant souvenu
present participle		se souvenant /sə‿.suv.nɑ̃/
past participle		souvenu /suv.ny/
person		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il	nous	vous	ils
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 historic1	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	Use the present tense of s'être followed by the past participle
	pluperfect	Use the imperfect tense of s'être followed by the past participle
	past anterior1	Use the past historic tense of s'être followed by the past participle
	future perfect	Use the future tense of s'être followed by the past participle
	conditional perfect	Use the conditional tense of s'être followed by the past participle
subjunctive		que je (j’)	que tu	qu’il	que nous	que vous	qu’ils
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/
	imperfect1	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	Use the present subjunctive tense of s'être followed by the past participle
	pluperfect1	Use the imperfect subjunctive tense of s'être followed by the past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
		—	souviens-toi /su.vjɛ̃.‿twa/	—	souvenons-nous /suv.nɔ̃.‿nu/	souvenez-vous /suv.ne.‿vu/	—
1literary tenses

SynonymsEdit

• rappeler

NounEdit

souvenir m (plural souvenirs)

1. 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...)

2. souvenir

   J'ai ramené un souvenir de Paris.

   I have brought back a souvenir of Paris.

Further readingEdit

• “souvenir” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

---

ItalianEdit

EtymologyEdit

From French

NounEdit

souvenir m (invariable)

1. souvenir

AnagramsEdit

• universo

---

Old FrenchEdit

VerbEdit

souvenir

1. Alternative form of sovenir

---

SpanishEdit

NounEdit

souvenir m (plural souvenires)

1. souvenir