couvrir
French, verb/ku.vʁiʁ/
couvrir is spelled C-O-U-V-R-I-R (7 letters) and appears 19 times per million words in written French, the 4,050th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Couvrir is a French verb meaning “to cover up, to cover (put a cover over)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Garnir, revêtir, pour protéger ou orner en appliquant, en déposant quelque chose”.
What does couvrir mean in English?
verb
- 1
to cover up, to cover (put a cover over)
- 2
to cover (feature, discuss, mention)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Garnir, revêtir, pour protéger ou orner en appliquant, en déposant quelque chose. 2. Vêtir chaudement. 3. Garnir en grande quantité, en déposant quelque chose sur quelque chose, ou en s'étendant uniformément sur quelque chose. 4. Interposer une chose comme défense ou rempart.
verb: 1. Parcourir d’un bout à l’autre.
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 couvrir
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- couvrant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- couvert participle past
- couvre first-person indicative present
- couvres indicative present second-person
- couvrons first-person indicative plural
- couvrez indicative plural present
- couvrent indicative plural present
- couvrais first-person imperfect indicative
- couvrait imperfect indicative singular
- couvrions first-person imperfect indicative
- couvriez imperfect indicative plural
- couvraient imperfect indicative plural
- couvris first-person historic indicative
- couvrit historic indicative past
- couvrîmes first-person historic indicative
- couvrîtes historic indicative past
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce couvrir?
- /ku.vʁiʁ/
- \ku.vʁiʁ\
- [ku.vʁiʁ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to couvrir
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is couvrir in French?
couvrir appears 19 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).