souvenir

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English

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

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] French souvenir (literally “memory”); compare memento.

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: sou‧ve‧nir
  • IPA(key): /ˌsuːvəˈnɪə(ɹ)/
  • Rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)

Noun

souvenir (plural souvenirs)

  1. An item of sentimental value, to remember an event or location.
    Synonyms: keepsake, memento, memorabilia

Alternative forms

Translations

Verb

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

  1. (transitive) To take (an article) as a souvenir, especially illicitly, for example during wartime.
    • 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

Etymology

Borrowed from French souvenir.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

souvenir n (plural souvenirs, diminutive souvenirtje n)

  1. souvenir

Synonyms

French

Etymology

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.

Pronunciation

Verb

souvenir

  1. (reflexive, with de) to remember
    Je me souviens de toi.
    I remember you.

Conjugation

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).

Synonyms

Noun

souvenir m (plural souvenirs)

  1. memory (mental picture).
    Je n'ai pas le souvenir de t'avoir dit ça...
    I don't have the memory of me having told you that... (I don't remember telling you that...)
  2. souvenir
    J'ai ramené un souvenir de Paris.
    I have brought back a souvenir of Paris.

Further reading

Italian

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] French

Noun

souvenir m (uncountable)

  1. souvenir

Anagrams

Old French

Verb

souvenir

  1. Alternative form of sovenir

Spanish

Noun

souvenir m (plural souvenires)

  1. souvenir
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