découvrir
French, verb/de.ku.vʁiʁ/
découvrir is spelled D-É-C-O-U-V-R-I-R (9 letters) and appears 63 times per million words in written French, the 1,323rd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Découvrir is a French verb meaning “to discover” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Dégarnir de ce qui couvrait”.
What does découvrir mean in English?
verb
- 1
to discover
- 2
to show, to reveal
- 3
to leave uncovered, to expose
- 4
to leave unprotected, to expose
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Dégarnir de ce qui couvrait. 2. Se retirer, en parlant de la mer. 3. Laisser voir ou laisser trop voir. 4. Dégarnir de ce qui mettait à couvert.
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 découvrir
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- découvrant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- découvert participle past
- découvre first-person indicative present
- découvres indicative present second-person
- découvrons first-person indicative plural
- découvrez indicative plural present
- découvrent indicative plural present
- découvrais first-person imperfect indicative
- découvrait imperfect indicative singular
- découvrions first-person imperfect indicative
- découvriez imperfect indicative plural
- découvraient imperfect indicative plural
- découvris first-person historic indicative
- découvrit historic indicative past
- découvrîmes first-person historic indicative
- découvrîtes historic indicative past
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce découvrir?
- /de.ku.vʁiʁ/
- \de.ku.vʁiʁ\
- [de.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 découvrir
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is découvrir in French?
découvrir appears 63 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).