retirer
French, verb/ʁə.ti.ʁe/
retirer is spelled R-E-T-I-R-E-R (7 letters) and appears 34 times per million words in written French, the 2,416th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Retirer is a French verb meaning “to take off; to remove (e.g. clothes); to pull out” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Tirer à nouveau”.
What does retirer mean in English?
verb
- 1
to take off; to remove (e.g. clothes); to pull out
Elle retira sa chemise.
- 2
to withdraw; to get out; to take out (money)
J'ai retiré 50 euros pour ce soir, j'espère que ça suffira.
- 3
to retire
- 4
to remove, to pull out
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Tirer à nouveau. 2. Ramener en arrière, ramener à soi. 3. Tirer une personne, une chose d’un lieu où elle avait été mise, où elle était entrée. 4. Reprendre, enlever.
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 retirer
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- retirant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- retiré participle past
- retire first-person indicative present
- retires indicative present second-person
- retirons first-person indicative plural
- retirez indicative plural present
- retirent indicative plural present
- retirais first-person imperfect indicative
- retirait imperfect indicative singular
- retirions first-person imperfect indicative
- retiriez imperfect indicative plural
- retiraient imperfect indicative plural
- retirai first-person historic indicative
- retiras historic indicative past
- retira historic indicative past
- retirâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce retirer?
- /ʁə.ti.ʁe/
- \ʁə.ti.ʁe\
- [ʁə.ti.ʁe]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to retirer
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is retirer in French?
retirer appears 34 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).