étourdir
French, verb/e.tuʁ.diʁ/
étourdir is spelled É-T-O-U-R-D-I-R (8 letters) and appears about once in every 6 million words in written French, the 83,718th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Étourdir is a French verb meaning “to daze, to stun” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Frapper soudainement d’une commotion cérébrale qui suspend la fonction des sens”.
What does étourdir mean in English?
verb
- 1
to daze, to stun
- 2
informalto tire, to wear out
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Frapper soudainement d’une commotion cérébrale qui suspend la fonction des sens. 2. Importuner ; fatiguer ; lasser. 3. Rendre presque ivre. 4. Abasourdir, hébéter.
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 étourdir
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- étourdissant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- étourdi participle past
- étourdis first-person indicative present
- étourdit indicative present singular
- étourdissons first-person indicative plural
- étourdissez indicative plural present
- étourdissent indicative plural present
- étourdissais first-person imperfect indicative
- étourdissait imperfect indicative singular
- étourdissions first-person imperfect indicative
- étourdissiez imperfect indicative plural
- étourdissaient imperfect indicative plural
- étourdîmes first-person historic indicative
- étourdîtes historic indicative past
- étourdirent historic indicative past
- étourdirai first-person future indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce étourdir?
- /e.tuʁ.diʁ/
- \e.tuʁ.diʁ\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to étourdir
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is étourdir in French?
étourdir appears about once in every 6 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).