mûrir
French, verb
mûrir is spelled M-Û-R-I-R (5 letters) and appears about once in every 1 million words in written French, the 33,599th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Mûrir is a French verb meaning “to mature, to become mature” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). Without its accent, murir is a different word: “post-1990 spelling of mûrir (“to mature or ripen”)”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Devenir mûr”.
What does mûrir mean in English?
verb
- 1
to mature, to become mature
- 2
to ripen, to become ripe
- 3
to mature, to cause to be mature
verb
- 1
post-1990 spelling of mûrir (“to mature or ripen”)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Devenir mûr. 2. Acquérir de la maturité 3. Rendre mûr. 4. Développer.
verb: 1. Devenir mûr. 2. Acquérir de la maturité. 3. Rendre mûr. 4. Développer.
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 mûrir
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- mûrissant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- mûri participle past
- mûris first-person indicative present
- mûrit indicative present singular
- mûrissons first-person indicative plural
- mûrissez indicative plural present
- mûrissent indicative plural present
- mûrissais first-person imperfect indicative
- mûrissait imperfect indicative singular
- mûrissions first-person imperfect indicative
- mûrissiez imperfect indicative plural
- mûrissaient imperfect indicative plural
- mûrîmes first-person historic indicative
- mûrîtes historic indicative past
- mûrirent historic indicative past
- mûrirai first-person future indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to mûrir
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is mûrir in French?
mûrir 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).