sourire

French

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French soubrire (silent b), from Old French sorrirre, from Vulgar Latin *subrīdĕre, from Latin subrīdēre.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /su.ʁiʁ/

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• Homophones: sourirent, sourires
• Hyphenation: sou‧rire

Noun

sourire m (plural sourires)

1. smile

Verb

sourire

1. to smile

Conjugation

Conjugation of sourire (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	sourire
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	souriant /su.ʁjɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		souri /su.ʁi/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	souris /su.ʁi/	souris /su.ʁi/	sourit /su.ʁi/	sourions /su.ʁjɔ̃/	souriez /su.ʁje/	sourient /su.ʁi/
	imperfect	souriais /su.ʁjɛ/	souriais /su.ʁjɛ/	souriait /su.ʁjɛ/	souriions /su.ʁi.jɔ̃/	souriiez /su.ʁi.je/	souriaient /su.ʁjɛ/
	past historic2	souris /su.ʁi/	souris /su.ʁi/	sourit /su.ʁi/	sourîmes /su.ʁim/	sourîtes /su.ʁit/	sourirent /su.ʁiʁ/
	future	sourirai /su.ʁi.ʁe/	souriras /su.ʁi.ʁa/	sourira /su.ʁi.ʁa/	sourirons /su.ʁi.ʁɔ̃/	sourirez /su.ʁi.ʁe/	souriront /su.ʁi.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	sourirais /su.ʁi.ʁɛ/	sourirais /su.ʁi.ʁɛ/	sourirait /su.ʁi.ʁɛ/	souririons /su.ʁi.ʁjɔ̃/	souririez /su.ʁi.ʁje/	souriraient /su.ʁi.ʁɛ/
(compound tenses)	present perfect	present indicative of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle
	past anterior2	past historic of avoir + past participle
	future perfect	future of avoir + past participle
	conditional perfect	conditional of avoir + past participle
subjunctive		que je (j’)	que tu	qu’il, qu’elle	que nous	que vous	qu’ils, qu’elles
(simple tenses)	present	sourie /su.ʁi/	souries /su.ʁi/	sourie /su.ʁi/	souriions /su.ʁi.jɔ̃/	souriiez /su.ʁi.je/	sourient /su.ʁi/
	imperfect2	sourisse /su.ʁis/	sourisses /su.ʁis/	sourît /su.ʁi/	sourissions /su.ʁi.sjɔ̃/	sourissiez /su.ʁi.sje/	sourissent /su.ʁis/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	souris /su.ʁi/	—	sourions /su.ʁjɔ̃/	souriez /su.ʁje/	—
compound		—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	simple imperative of avoir + 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 terms

• la fortune sourit aux audacieux
• le beurre, l’argent du beurre et le sourire de la crémière
• sourire à pleines dents
• sourire de toutes ses dents
• sourire jusqu’aux oreilles
• tout sourire

Related terms

• see rire

Further reading

• “sourire”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.