chérir
French, verb/ʃe.ʁiʁ/
chérir is spelled C-H-É-R-I-R (6 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written French, the 40,183rd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Chérir is a French verb meaning “to cherish” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Aimer tendrement”.
What does chérir mean in English?
verb
- 1
to cherish
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Aimer tendrement. 2. Être tendrement attaché à ; se complaire dans.
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 chérir
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- chérissant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- chéri participle past
- chéris first-person indicative present
- chérit indicative present singular
- chérissons first-person indicative plural
- chérissez indicative plural present
- chérissent indicative plural present
- chérissais first-person imperfect indicative
- chérissait imperfect indicative singular
- chérissions first-person imperfect indicative
- chérissiez imperfect indicative plural
- chérissaient imperfect indicative plural
- chérîmes first-person historic indicative
- chérîtes historic indicative past
- chérirent historic indicative past
- chérirai first-person future indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce chérir?
- /ʃe.ʁiʁ/
- \ʃe.ʁiʁ\
- [ʃe.ʁiʁ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to chérir
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is chérir in French?
chérir appears about once in every 2 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).