expirer
French, verb/ɛk.spi.ʁe/
expirer is a French verb meaning “to breathe out” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Rendre le dernier soupir”.
What does expirer mean in English?
verb
- 1
to breathe out
- 2
to draw one's last breath, to pass away
- 3
to expire, to run out
Near-synonym: périmer
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Rendre le dernier soupir. 2. Prendre fin, cesser d’être, en parlant de certaines choses physiques ou morales.
verb: 1. Rendre l’air qu’on avait aspiré.
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 expirer
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- expirant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- expiré participle past
- expire first-person indicative present
- expires indicative present second-person
- expirons first-person indicative plural
- expirez indicative plural present
- expirent indicative plural present
- expirais first-person imperfect indicative
- expirait imperfect indicative singular
- expirions first-person imperfect indicative
- expiriez imperfect indicative plural
- expiraient imperfect indicative plural
- expirai first-person historic indicative
- expiras historic indicative past
- expira historic indicative past
- expirâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce expirer?
- /ɛk.spi.ʁe/
- \ɛks.pi.ʁe\
- [ɛkspiʁe]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to expirer
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is expirer in French?
expirer 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).