mourir
French, noun/mu.ʁiʁ/
mourir is spelled M-O-U-R-I-R (6 letters) and appears 56 times per million words in written French, the 1,478th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Mourir is a French masculine noun meaning “the experience or process of dying (as opposed to the state of being dead)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Expérience de la mort”.
What does mourir mean in English?
verb
- 1
to die; to be dying
- 2
to be dying (of)
Je meurs de faim
- 3
to be dying
noun
- 1
masculinethe experience or process of dying (as opposed to the state of being dead)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Cesser de vivre ; devenir mort. 2. Subir des tourments ; être tourmenté. 3. Finir, disparaitre, en parlant des États, des institutions, des établissements, des choses morales, des productions de l’esprit, des ouvrages de l’art. 4. Finir peu à peu en parlant de certaines choses, de l’activité, du mouvement ou de choses qui finissent par une dégradation insensible, comme les sons, les couleurs, etc.
noun: 1. Expérience de la 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.
Forms of mourir
- être + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- mourant gerund participle present
- étant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- mort participle past
- meurs first-person indicative present
- meurt indicative present singular
- mourons first-person indicative plural
- mourez indicative plural present
- meurent indicative plural present
- mourais first-person imperfect indicative
- mourait imperfect indicative singular
- mourions first-person imperfect indicative
- mouriez imperfect indicative plural
- mouraient imperfect indicative plural
- mourus first-person historic indicative
- mourut historic indicative past
- mourûmes first-person historic indicative
- mourûtes historic indicative past
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce mourir?
- /mu.ʁiʁ/
- \mu.ʁiʁ\
- [mu.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 mourir
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is mourir in French?
mourir appears 56 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).