pâtir
French, verb/pa.tiʁ/
pâtir is spelled P-Â-T-I-R (5 letters) and appears about once in every 1 million words in written French, the 39,210th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Pâtir is a French verb meaning “to suffer” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Souffrir, être dans la misère”.
What does pâtir mean in English?
verb
- 1
to suffer
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Souffrir, être dans la misère. 2. Subir des conséquences fâcheuses.
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 pâtir
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- pâtissant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- pâti participle past
- pâtis first-person indicative present
- pâtit indicative present singular
- pâtissons first-person indicative plural
- pâtissez indicative plural present
- pâtissent indicative plural present
- pâtissais first-person imperfect indicative
- pâtissait imperfect indicative singular
- pâtissions first-person imperfect indicative
- pâtissiez imperfect indicative plural
- pâtissaient imperfect indicative plural
- pâtîmes first-person historic indicative
- pâtîtes historic indicative past
- avoir pâti infinitive past
- en pâtissant gerund present
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce pâtir?
- /pa.tiʁ/
- /pɑ.tiʁ/
- \pɑ.tiʁ\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is pâtir in French?
pâtir 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).