souvenir
See also: Souvenir
English Edit
Etymology Edit
From French souvenir (literally “memory”); compare memento.
Pronunciation Edit
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˌsuːvəˈnɪə/
- (US) IPA(key): /ˈsu.vəˌnɪɹ/, /ˌsu.vəˈnɪɹ/
- (Hong Kong) IPA(key): /ˌsoʊ.vəˈnɪ.ə/
Audio (Southern England) (file) - Hyphenation: sou‧ve‧nir
- Rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)
Noun Edit
souvenir (plural souvenirs)
- An item of sentimental value, that is given or kept to remember an event or location.
- Synonyms: keepsake, memento, memorabilia
Alternative forms Edit
- souvenier (obsolete)
Derived terms Edit
Descendants Edit
- → Cantonese: souven
Translations Edit
item of sentimental value to remember an event or location
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Verb Edit
souvenir (third-person singular simple present souvenirs, present participle souveniring, simple past and past participle souvenired)
- (transitive) To take (something) as a souvenir, especially illicitly, for example during wartime.
- 1979, Gustav Hasford, The Short-Timers, New York: Bantam Books, published 1980, →ISBN, page 57:
- "Doubletime up to the ville and souvenir me one cute orphan, man, but be sure you get a dirty one, a really skuzzy one."
- 2017, Fiona Farrell, Decline and Fall on Savage Street, →ISBN, page 84:
- The word is they're waiting for some blokes who had gone off souveniring before the order was announced.
Dutch Edit
Etymology Edit
Borrowed from French souvenir.
Pronunciation Edit
Noun Edit
souvenir n (plural souvenirs, diminutive souvenirtje n)
Synonyms Edit
Descendants Edit
- → Indonesian: suvenir
French Edit
Etymology Edit
Inherited from Middle French soubvenir, from Old French sovenir, from Latin subvenīre (“come to mind, occur to”), from sub + veniō. Doublet of subvenir.
Pronunciation Edit
- IPA(key): /su.v(ə).niʁ/
audio (se souvenir) (file)
Verb Edit
souvenir
- (takes a reflexive pronoun, transitive with de) to remember
- Synonym: rappeler
- il faut se souvenir que... ― It's necessary to remember that...
- Je me souviens de toi. ― I remember you.
- Est-ce que vous vous souvenez de ce que vous m’avez dit la semaine dernière ?
- Do you remember what you told me last week?
Conjugation Edit
This is a verb in a group of -ir verbs. All verbs ending in -venir, such as convenir and devenir, are conjugated this way. Such verbs are the only verbs whose the past historic and subjunctive imperfect endings do not start in one of these thematic vowels (-a-, -i-, -u-).
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 | ayant or étant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | souvenu /suv.ny/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | 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/ |
— | |
| 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 usable only with the preposition en. | |||||||
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Derived terms Edit
Noun Edit
souvenir m (plural souvenirs)
- memory (mental picture)
- Je n’ai pas le souvenir de t’avoir dit ça…
- I don't remember telling you that…
- (literally, “I don't have the memory of me having told you that…”)
- souvenir
- J’ai ramené un souvenir de Paris.
- I have brought back a souvenir of Paris.
Derived terms Edit
Descendants Edit
Further reading Edit
- “souvenir”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Italian Edit
Etymology Edit
Borrowed from French souvenir.
Pronunciation Edit
Noun Edit
souvenir m (invariable)
References Edit
- ^ souvenir in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
Further reading Edit
- souvenir in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Anagrams Edit
Old French Edit
Verb Edit
souvenir
- Alternative form of sovenir
Conjugation Edit
This verb conjugates as a third-group verb. This verb has a stressed present stem souvien distinct from the unstressed stem souven, as well as other irregularities. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.
Conjugation of souvenir (see also Appendix:Old French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| infinitive | souvenir | avoir souvenu | |||||
| gerund | en souvenant | Use the gerund of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| present participle | souvenant | ||||||
| past participle | souvenu | ||||||
| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | jo | tu | il | nos | vos | il | |
| simple tenses |
present | souvieng, souvien | souviens | souvient | souvenons | souvenez | souvienent |
| imperfect | souvenoie, souveneie | souvenoies, souveneies | souvenoit, souveneit | souveniiens, souveniens | souveniiez, souveniez | souvenoient, souveneient | |
| preterite | souvin | souvenis | souvint | souvenimes | souvenistes | souvindrent, souvinrent | |
| future | souvendrai | souvendras | souvendra | souvendrons | souvendroiz, souvendreiz, souvendrez | souvendront | |
| conditional | souvendroie, souvendreie | souvendroies, souvendreies | souvendroit, souvendreit | souvendriiens, souvendriens | souvendriiez, souvendriez | souvendroient, souvendreient | |
| compound tenses |
present perfect | Use the present tense of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | Use the imperfect tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| past anterior | Use the preterite tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| future perfect | Use the future tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| conditional perfect | Use the conditional tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| subjunctive | que jo | que tu | qu’il | que nos | que vos | qu’il | |
| simple tenses |
present | souviegne | souviegnes | souviegne | souviegniens, souviegnons | souviegniez | souviegnent |
| imperfect | souvenisse | souvenisses | souvenist | souvenissons, souvenissiens | souvenissoiz, souvenissez, souvenissiez | souvenissent | |
| compound tenses |
past | Use the present subjunctive of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | Use the imperfect subjunctive of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | tu | – | nos | vos | – | |
| — | souvien | — | souvenons | souvenez | — | ||
Spanish Edit
Alternative forms Edit
Etymology Edit
Unadapted borrowing from French souvenir.
Pronunciation Edit
Noun Edit
souvenir m (plural souvenirs)
- souvenir
- Synonym: recuerdo
- 2015 July 8, “Resumen del día de El País América - 7 de julio”, in El País[1]:
- Y eso aumenta la presión sobre México: el otrora “gigante de Concacaf”: el campeón de los ratings en las transmisiones y una de las selecciones con más ganancias por venta de jerséis y souvenires alusivos al equipo en el mundo.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Usage notes Edit
According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.
Further reading Edit
- “souvenir”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Swedish Edit
Noun Edit
souvenir c
- a souvenir
Declension Edit
| Declension of souvenir | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Singular | Plural | |||
| Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
| Nominative | souvenir | souveniren | souvenirer | souvenirerna |
| Genitive | souvenirs | souvenirens | souvenirers | souvenirernas |