férir
French, verb/fe.ʁiʁ/
férir is a French verb meaning “to hit, strike” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Frapper. Ce verbe n’est plus usité qu’à l’infinitif et au participe passé dans quelques locutions (voir aussi…”.
What does férir mean in English?
verb
- 1
obsoleteto hit, strike
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Frapper. Ce verbe n’est plus usité qu’à l’infinitif et au participe passé dans quelques locutions (voir aussi féru). référence nécessaire (résoudre le problème)
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 férir
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- féru participle past
- present indicative of avoir + past participle indicative multiword-construction perfect
- imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle indicative multiword-construction pluperfect
- past historic of avoir + past participle anterior indicative multiword-construction
- future of avoir + past participle future indicative multiword-construction
- conditional of avoir + past participle conditional multiword-construction perfect
- present subjunctive of avoir + past participle multiword-construction past subjunctive
- imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle multiword-construction pluperfect subjunctive
- simple imperative of avoir + past participle imperative multiword-construction second-person
- avoir féru infinitive past
- en férant gerund present
- en ayant féru gerund past
- férant participle present
- je fiers indicative
- tu fiers indicative
- il/elle/on fiert indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce férir?
- /fe.ʁiʁ/
- \fe.ʁiʁ\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is férir in French?
férir appears about once in every 4 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).