guérir
French, verb/ɡe.ʁiʁ/
guérir is a French verb meaning “to cure, to heal” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Délivrer d’un mal physique”.
What does guérir mean in English?
verb
- 1
to cure, to heal
Le médecin va le guérir.
- 2
to cure, to heal
- 3
to recover, to heal
Il se guérira peu à peu.
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Délivrer d’un mal physique. 2. L’art de guérir. 3. Délivrer d’un mal moral, de mauvaises habitudes, travers, passions, vices, etc. 4. ou Se délivrer d’un mal physique.
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 guérir
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- guérissant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- guéri participle past
- guéris first-person indicative present
- guérit indicative present singular
- guérissons first-person indicative plural
- guérissez indicative plural present
- guérissent indicative plural present
- guérissais first-person imperfect indicative
- guérissait imperfect indicative singular
- guérissions first-person imperfect indicative
- guérissiez imperfect indicative plural
- guérissaient imperfect indicative plural
- guérîmes first-person historic indicative
- guérîtes historic indicative past
- guérirent historic indicative past
- guérirai first-person future indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce guérir?
- /ɡe.ʁiʁ/
- \ɡe.ʁiʁ\
- [ɡe.ʁiʁ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to guérir
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is guérir in French?
guérir appears 8.5 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).