souvenir

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English[edit]

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.

Etymology[edit]

Unadapted borrowing 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/
  • (file)
  • Hyphenation: sou‧ve‧nir
  • Rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)

Noun[edit]

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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Descendants[edit]

  • Cantonese: souven

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Verb[edit]

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.

Dutch[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Unadapted borrowing from French souvenir.

Pronunciation[edit]

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

Noun[edit]

souvenir n (plural souvenirs, diminutive souvenirtje n)

  1. souvenir

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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]

Verb[edit]

souvenir

  1. (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-).

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Noun[edit]

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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Further reading[edit]

Italian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Unadapted borrowing from French souvenir.

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

souvenir m (invariable)

  1. souvenir

References[edit]

  1. ^ 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

  1. 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.

Spanish[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Unadapted borrowing from French souvenir.

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /subeˈniɾ/ [su.β̞eˈniɾ]
  • Rhymes: -iɾ

Noun[edit]

souvenir m (plural souvenirs)

  1. 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.
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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]

Swedish[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Unadapted borrowing from French souvenir.

Noun[edit]

souvenir c

  1. a souvenir

Declension[edit]

Declension of souvenir 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative souvenir souveniren souvenirer souvenirerna
Genitive souvenirs souvenirens souvenirers souvenirernas

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