nourrir
French, verb/nu.ʁiʁ/
nourrir is spelled N-O-U-R-R-I-R (7 letters) and appears 19 times per million words in written French, the 4,050th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Nourrir is a French verb meaning “to feed (provide with nourishment), nourish” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Sustenter, servir d’aliment”.
What does nourrir mean in English?
verb
- 1
to feed (provide with nourishment), nourish
- 2
to nurture, to fuel
- 3
to eat, to feed oneself
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Sustenter, servir d’aliment. 2. Donner des engrais, engraisser, fumer. 3. Allaiter. 4. Allaiter.
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 nourrir
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- nourrissant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- nourri participle past
- nourris first-person indicative present
- nourrit indicative present singular
- nourrissons first-person indicative plural
- nourrissez indicative plural present
- nourrissent indicative plural present
- nourrissais first-person imperfect indicative
- nourrissait imperfect indicative singular
- nourrissions first-person imperfect indicative
- nourrissiez imperfect indicative plural
- nourrissaient imperfect indicative plural
- nourrîmes first-person historic indicative
- nourrîtes historic indicative past
- nourrirent historic indicative past
- nourrirai first-person future indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce nourrir?
- /nu.ʁiʁ/
- \nu.ʁiʁ\
- [nu.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 nourrir
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is nourrir in French?
nourrir appears 19 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).