rosir
French, verb/ʁo.ziʁ/
rosir is spelled R-O-S-I-R (5 letters) and appears about once in every 23 million words in written French, the 155,929th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Rosir is a French verb meaning “to blush” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Devenir rose”.
What does rosir mean in English?
verb
- 1
to blush
- 2
to become or make pink
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Devenir rose. 2. Rendre rose.
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 rosir
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- rosissant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- rosi participle past
- rosis first-person indicative present
- rosit indicative present singular
- rosissons first-person indicative plural
- rosissez indicative plural present
- rosissent indicative plural present
- rosissais first-person imperfect indicative
- rosissait imperfect indicative singular
- rosissions first-person imperfect indicative
- rosissiez imperfect indicative plural
- rosissaient imperfect indicative plural
- rosîmes first-person historic indicative
- rosîtes historic indicative past
- rosirent historic indicative past
- rosirai first-person future indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce rosir?
- /ʁo.ziʁ/
- \ʁo.ziʁ\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is rosir in French?
rosir appears about once in every 23 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).