punir
French, verb/py.niʁ/
punir is spelled P-U-N-I-R (5 letters) and appears 8.1 times per million words in written French, the 7,805th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Punir is a French verb meaning “to punish” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Infliger une correction à quelqu’un”.
What does punir mean in English?
verb
- 1
to punish
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Infliger une correction à quelqu’un. 2. Sanctionner une faute par une peine. 3. Se dit aussi en parlant du crime, de la faute. 4. Mal reconnaître ce qu’on a fait pour nous, rendre le mal pour le bien.
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 punir
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- punissant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- puni participle past
- punis first-person indicative present
- punit indicative present singular
- punissons first-person indicative plural
- punissez indicative plural present
- punissent indicative plural present
- punissais first-person imperfect indicative
- punissait imperfect indicative singular
- punissions first-person imperfect indicative
- punissiez imperfect indicative plural
- punissaient imperfect indicative plural
- punîmes first-person historic indicative
- punîtes historic indicative past
- punirent historic indicative past
- punirai first-person future indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce punir?
- /py.niʁ/
- \py.niʁ\
- [py.niʁ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to punir
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is punir in French?
punir appears 8.1 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).