aboutir
French, verb/a.bu.tiʁ/
aboutir is spelled A-B-O-U-T-I-R (7 letters) and appears 8.1 times per million words in written French, the 7,805th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Aboutir is a French verb meaning “to lead to, to end up in, to reach” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Toucher par un bout”.
What does aboutir mean in English?
verb
- 1
to lead to, to end up in, to reach
- 2
to lead to, to have the consequence of
- 3
to reach a conclusion, to succeed
- 4
to touch by one end
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Toucher par un bout. 2. Arriver au bout. 3. Avoir pour résultat, en parlant d'une affaire, d’un raisonnement, d’une entreprise. 4. Avoir un résultat, réussir.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of aboutir
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- aboutissant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- abouti participle past
- aboutis first-person indicative present
- aboutit indicative present singular
- aboutissons first-person indicative plural
- aboutissez indicative plural present
- aboutissent indicative plural present
- aboutissais first-person imperfect indicative
- aboutissait imperfect indicative singular
- aboutissions first-person imperfect indicative
- aboutissiez imperfect indicative plural
- aboutissaient imperfect indicative plural
- aboutîmes first-person historic indicative
- aboutîtes historic indicative past
- aboutirent historic indicative past
- aboutirai first-person future indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce aboutir?
- /a.bu.tiʁ/
- \a.bu.tiʁ\
- [a.bu.tiʁ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to aboutir
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is aboutir in French?
aboutir appears 8.1 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).