fournir
French, verb/fuʁ.niʁ/
fournir is spelled F-O-U-R-N-I-R (7 letters) and appears 33 times per million words in written French, the 2,473rd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Fournir is a French verb meaning “to supply, to provide, to furnish” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Pourvoir ; approvisionner”.
What does fournir mean in English?
verb
- 1
to supply, to provide, to furnish
La boulangerie fournit mon restaurant en pain.
- 2
to put in
fournir de l'effort
- 3
to follow suit
- 4
slangto poke, to shaft, to hump; to have sex
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Pourvoir ; approvisionner. 2. Livrer ; procurer ; faire avoir. 3. Mettre la carte qui est prévue par la règle du jeu. 4. Produire, exposer, surtout en termes de procédure et d’administration.
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 fournir
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- fournissant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- fourni participle past
- fournis first-person indicative present
- fournit indicative present singular
- fournissons first-person indicative plural
- fournissez indicative plural present
- fournissent indicative plural present
- fournissais first-person imperfect indicative
- fournissait imperfect indicative singular
- fournissions first-person imperfect indicative
- fournissiez imperfect indicative plural
- fournissaient imperfect indicative plural
- fournîmes first-person historic indicative
- fournîtes historic indicative past
- fournirent historic indicative past
- fournirai first-person future indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce fournir?
- /fuʁ.niʁ/
- \fuʁ.niʁ\
- [fuʁ.niʁ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to fournir
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is fournir in French?
fournir appears 33 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).