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finir ses jours

French, verb/fi.niʁ se ʒuʁ/

finir ses jours is a French verb meaning “to end one's days, to spend the rest of one's life, to spend one's last days (somewhere) (to pass the end of one's days (somewhere))” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Vivre la dernière partie de sa vie jusqu'à sa mort”.

What does finir ses jours mean in English?

verb

  1. 1

    to end one's days, to spend the rest of one's life, to spend one's last days (somewhere) (to pass the end of one's days (somewhere))

    finir ses jours en prison

Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How French dictionaries define it

verb: 1. Vivre la dernière partie de sa vie jusqu'à sa 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.

How do you pronounce finir ses jours?

  • /fi.niʁ se ʒuʁ/
  • \fi.niʁ sɛ ʒuʁ\

Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.