gémir
French, verb/ʒe.miʁ/
gémir is spelled G-É-M-I-R (5 letters) and appears about once in every 1 million words in written French, the 36,297th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Gémir is a French verb meaning “to moan; to groan” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Exprimer sa souffrance d’une voix plaintive et non articulée”.
What does gémir mean in English?
verb
- 1
to moan; to groan
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Exprimer sa souffrance d’une voix plaintive et non articulée. 2. Se plaindre sous l’excitation de la tyrannie, de l’injustice, du malheur, etc. 3. Pousser un cri languissant et plaintif, en parlant de certains oiseaux. 4. Faire entendre quelque bruit, quelque murmure, en parlant de choses inanimées.
noun: 1. Fait de se plaindre.
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 gémir
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- gémissant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- gémi participle past
- gémis first-person indicative present
- gémit indicative present singular
- gémissons first-person indicative plural
- gémissez indicative plural present
- gémissent indicative plural present
- gémissais first-person imperfect indicative
- gémissait imperfect indicative singular
- gémissions first-person imperfect indicative
- gémissiez imperfect indicative plural
- gémissaient imperfect indicative plural
- gémîmes first-person historic indicative
- gémîtes historic indicative past
- gémirent historic indicative past
- gémirai first-person future indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce gémir?
- /ʒe.miʁ/
- \ʒe.miʁ\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to gémir
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is gémir in French?
gémir appears about once in every 1 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).