avenir
French, noun/av.niʁ/
avenir is spelled A-V-E-N-I-R (6 letters) and appears 89 times per million words in written French, the 941st most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Avenir is a French masculine noun meaning “future” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Futur, ce qui va arriver”.
What does avenir mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinefuture
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Futur, ce qui va arriver. 2. Devenir d’une personne, d’une organisation. 3. Postérité.
verb: 1. Variante de advenir.
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 avenir
- avenirs plural
- avoir avenu infinitive past
- en avenant gerund present
- en ayant avenu gerund past
- avenant participle present
- avenu participle past
- il/elle/on avient indicative present
- ils/elles aviennent indicative present
- il/elle a avenu indicative past multiword-construction
- ils/elles ont avenu indicative past multiword-construction
- il/elle/on avenait indicative imperfect
- ils/elles avenaient indicative imperfect
- il/elle avait avenu indicative pluperfect
- ils/elles avaient avenu indicative pluperfect
- il/elle/on avint indicative past
- ils/elles avinrent indicative past
- il/elle eut avenu indicative past anterior
- ils/elles eurent avenu indicative past anterior
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce avenir?
- /av.niʁ/
- \a.və.niʁ\
- [av.niʁ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to avenir
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is avenir in French?
avenir appears 89 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).