se souvenir
\sə suv.niʁ\
The verdict
“se souvenir” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Garder la mémoire, soit d’un bienfait pour le reconnaître, soit d’une injure pour s’en venger.
Corpus desk
Index FR-se-souvenir · se souvenir · French
se souvenir · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "S" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | se souvenir |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \sə suv.niʁ\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « se souvenir » en français
Rare enough to double-check
se souvenir is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed \sə suv.niʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for se souvenir in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is se souvenir, spelled S-E- -S-O-U-V-E-N-I-R.
Definition
- 1Garder la mémoire, soit d’un bienfait pour le reconnaître, soit d’une injure pour s’en venger.
- 2Avoir du ressentiment.
- 3Avoir soin, s’occuper de quelque chose.
- 4Revenir à la mémoire.
- 5Revenir à la mémoire du narrateur.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how se souvenir appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Nous nous souvenons du premier dîner avec l’être aimé (nous pouvions à peine manger, tant le désir de l’autre nous emplissait). Nous nous souvenons du goût de son corps sur notre langue.
Pourtant, nous nous souvenons, nous de la 3ᵉ DIM et de la 3ᵉ DCR, comment ces troupes de relève de List, dès le 16 mai, nous ont bousculés vers Tannay, à partir de Sauville et de la Cassine, par-dessus le canal des Ardennes.
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.