Wiktionary

souvenir

See also: 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

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˌsuːvəˈnɪə/
  • (US) IPA(key): /ˈsu.vəˌnɪɹ/, /ˌsu.vəˈnɪɹ/
  • Audio (UK)(file)
  • Hyphenation: sou‧ve‧nir
  • Rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)

NounEdit

souvenir (plural souvenirs)

  1. An item of sentimental value, that is given or kept to remember an event or location.
    Synonyms: keepsake, memento, memorabilia
    • 2005, Steven Church, Guinness Book of Me, Simon and Schuster (→ISBN), page 138:
      The tourists stuck to the safe confines of the gift shop, where they bought souvenir combs, shot glasses, oversize pencils, and blocks of cedar painted with rhyming poems and shellacked to a high gloss.

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VerbEdit

souvenir (third-person singular simple present souvenirs, present participle souveniring, simple past and past participle souvenired)

  1. (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.

DutchEdit

EtymologyEdit

Borrowed from French souvenir.

PronunciationEdit

  • IPA(key): /su.vəˈnir/
  • Audio(file)
  • Hyphenation: sou‧ve‧nir

NounEdit

souvenir n (plural souvenirs, diminutive souvenirtje n)

  1. souvenir

SynonymsEdit

DescendantsEdit

  • → Indonesian: suvenir

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

  1. (takes a reflexive pronoun, transitive with de) to remember
    Synonym: rappeler
    il faut se souvenir que ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)
    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?

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. 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 – tu – nous vous –
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:
  • past historic → present perfect
  • past anterior → pluperfect
  • imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive
  • pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive

(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Derived termsEdit

NounEdit

souvenir m (plural souvenirs)

  1. 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…”)
  2. souvenir
    J'ai ramené un souvenir de Paris.
    I have brought back a souvenir of Paris.

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DescendantsEdit

Further readingEdit

ItalianEdit

EtymologyEdit

From French souvenir.

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

souvenir m (invariable)

  1. souvenir

ReferencesEdit

  1. ^ souvenir in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)

Further readingEdit

  • souvenir in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

AnagramsEdit

Old FrenchEdit

VerbEdit

souvenir

  1. Alternative form of sovenir

ConjugationEdit

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 —

SpanishEdit

Alternative formsEdit

EtymologyEdit

Unadapted borrowing from French souvenir.

NounEdit

souvenir m (plural souvenirs)

  1. souvenir
    • 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 quote)

Usage notesEdit

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.

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