soir

See also: sõir

French

Etymology

Inherited from Old French soir, from earlier seir, from Latin sērō (“late”, adverb), from sērus (“late”).

Pronunciation

• (Europe) IPA^(key): /swaʁ/

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• (standard Canadian French) IPA^(key): /swɑːʁ/
• (Québec: Gaspésie and Acadia) IPA^(key): /swɛː(ɾ)/
• (Québec: Montréal, joual) IPA^(key): /swɛːʁ/, /sweʁ/
• (Québec: popular, informal) IPA^(key): /swɔːʁ/

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• (Louisiana) IPA^(key): /swar/, [swɒ(ɾ)]

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• Homophone: seoir
• Rhymes: -waʁ

Noun

soir m (plural soirs)

1. evening

Derived terms

• bonsoir
• coup d'un soir
• du matin au soir
• étoile du soir
• histoire du soir

See also

• soirée

Verb

soir (defective)

1. post-1990 spelling of seoir

Conjugation

Conjugation of soir (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	soir
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	séant or seyant
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		sis
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	sieds	sieds	sied	seyons	seyez	siéent
	imperfect	seyais	seyais	seyait	seyions	seyiez	seyaient
	past historic2	sis	sis	sit	sîmes	sîtes	sirent
	future	siérai	siéras	siéra	siérons	siérez	siéront
	conditional	siérais	siérais	siérait	siérions	siériez	siéraient
(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	siée	siées	siée	—	—	siéent
	imperfect2	—	—	—	—	—	—
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	sieds	—	seyons	seyez	—
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).

Related terms

• assoir

References

• Office québécois de la langue française, Rectifications liées à la suppression d’anomalies, vitrinelinguistique.oqlf.gouv.qc.ca

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• rois

Irish

Etymology

From Middle Irish sair. Variant of the synonym an ear, from Old Irish an air (“from before”).

Pronunciation

• (Munster) IPA^(key): /sˠiɾʲ/
• (Connacht) IPA^(key): /sˠeɾʲ/
• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /ʃeɾʲ/, /ʃɨɾʲ/

Adjective

soir

1. east, eastern (static position)

Adverb

soir

1. east, eastward

Usage notes

• This word refers only to an ultimate destination of movement (i.e., "to the east").
• The adjective is indeclinable in Irish

See also

Irish adverbs of direction and position

point of reference	motion toward	stationary position at	stationary position on the indicated side	motion from
above, up	suas	thuas	lastuas	anuas
below, down	síos	thíos	laistíos	aníos
east	soir	thoir	lastoir	anoir
west/back	siar	thiar	laistiar	aniar
north	ó thuaidh	thuaidh	lastuaidh	aduaidh
south	ó dheas	theas	laisteas	aneas
northeast	soir ó thuaidh	thoir thuaidh	—	anoir aduaidh
northwest	siar ó thuaidh	thiar thuaidh	—	aniar aduaidh
southeast	soir ó dheas	thoir theas	—	anoir aneas
southwest	siar ó dheas	thiar theas	—	aniar aneas
over there	sall	thall	lastall	anall
over here	—	—	—	anonn
inside	isteach	istigh	laistigh	—
outside	amach	amuigh	lasmuigh	—

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “sair”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “soir”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931), Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry [Phonetics of an Irish Dialect of Kerry] (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, page 71

Occitan

Etymology

Probably borrowed from French soir. Compare the inherited Occitan form ser, seir.

Noun

soir m (plural soirs)

1. evening

Old French

Alternative forms

• seir
• ser

Etymology

From earlier seir, from Latin sērō (“late”, adverb), from sērus (“late”).

Noun

soir oblique singular, m (oblique plural soirs, nominative singular soirs, nominative plural soir)

1. evening

Descendants

• French: soir
• Norman: sei
• Picard: soir

Picard

Etymology

From Old French soir, from earlier seir, from Late Latin sēra, from ellipsis of Latin sēra diēs, from sērus (“late”).

Noun

soir m

1. evening