rouvrir
French, verb/ʁu.vʁiʁ/
rouvrir is spelled R-O-U-V-R-I-R (7 letters) and appears 2.2 times per million words in written French, the 19,481st most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Rouvrir is a French verb meaning “to reopen, to open again” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Ouvrir de nouveau, ouvrir ce qui avait été fermé”.
What does rouvrir mean in English?
verb
- 1
to reopen, to open again
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Ouvrir de nouveau, ouvrir ce qui avait été fermé. 2. Redonner entière liberté.
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 rouvrir
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- rouvrant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- rouvert participle past
- rouvre first-person indicative present
- rouvres indicative present second-person
- rouvrons first-person indicative plural
- rouvrez indicative plural present
- rouvrent indicative plural present
- rouvrais first-person imperfect indicative
- rouvrait imperfect indicative singular
- rouvrions first-person imperfect indicative
- rouvriez imperfect indicative plural
- rouvraient imperfect indicative plural
- rouvris first-person historic indicative
- rouvrit historic indicative past
- rouvrîmes first-person historic indicative
- rouvrîtes historic indicative past
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce rouvrir?
- /ʁu.vʁiʁ/
- \ʁu.vʁiʁ\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to rouvrir
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is rouvrir in French?
rouvrir appears 2.2 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).