souvenir
English
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Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] French souvenir (literally “memory”); compare memento.
Pronunciation
Noun
souvenir (plural souvenirs)
- An item of sentimental value, to remember an event or location.
- Synonyms: keepsake, memento, memorabilia
Alternative forms
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Verb
souvenir (third-person singular simple present souvenirs, present participle souveniring, simple past and past participle souvenired)
- (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
Noun
souvenir n (plural souvenirs, diminutive souvenirtje n)
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
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-).
infinitive | simple | se souvenir | |||||
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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 | – | – | – | ||||
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:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). |
Synonyms
Noun
souvenir m (plural souvenirs)
- 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...)
- Je n'ai pas le souvenir de t'avoir dit ça...
- souvenir
- J'ai ramené un souvenir de Paris.
- I have brought back a souvenir of Paris.
- J'ai ramené un souvenir de Paris.
Further reading
- “souvenir”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Italian
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] French
Noun
souvenir m (uncountable)
Anagrams
Old French
Verb
souvenir
- Alternative form of sovenir
Spanish
Noun
souvenir m (plural souvenires)
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