dormir
French, verb/dɔʁ.miʁ/
dormir is spelled D-O-R-M-I-R (6 letters) and appears 45 times per million words in written French, the 1,857th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Dormir is a French verb meaning “to sleep” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Se reposer dans un état inconscient, de sommeil”.
What does dormir mean in English?
verb
- 1
to sleep
Vous devriez essayer de dormir.
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Se reposer dans un état inconscient, de sommeil. 2. Vivre un rêve, une sieste… en état de sommeil. 3. Être immobile ou avoir un mouvement imperceptible. 4. Gésir dans la mort.
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 dormir
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- dormant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- dormi participle past
- dors first-person indicative present
- dort indicative present singular
- dormons first-person indicative plural
- dormez indicative plural present
- dorment indicative plural present
- dormais first-person imperfect indicative
- dormait imperfect indicative singular
- dormions first-person imperfect indicative
- dormiez imperfect indicative plural
- dormaient imperfect indicative plural
- dormis first-person historic indicative
- dormit historic indicative past
- dormîmes first-person historic indicative
- dormîtes historic indicative past
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce dormir?
- /dɔʁ.miʁ/
- \dɔʁ.miʁ\
- [dɔʁ.miʁ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to dormir
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is dormir in French?
dormir appears 45 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).