soir
French, noun/swaʁ/
soir is spelled S-O-I-R (4 letters) and appears 309 times per million words in written French, the 264th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Soir is a French masculine noun meaning “evening” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Déclin du jour, dernières heures de la journée”.
What does soir mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineevening
verb
- 1
post-1990 spelling of seoir
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Déclin du jour, dernières heures de la journée. 2. Période qui s’écoule entre le coucher de soleil et à minuit.
verb: 1. Variante orthographique de seoir.
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 soir
- soirs plural
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- séant gerund participle present
- seyant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- sis participle past
- sieds first-person indicative present
- sied indicative present singular
- seyons first-person indicative plural
- seyez indicative plural present
- siéent indicative plural present
- seyais first-person imperfect indicative
- seyait imperfect indicative singular
- seyions first-person imperfect indicative
- seyiez imperfect indicative plural
- seyaient imperfect indicative plural
- sit historic indicative past
- sîmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce soir?
- /swaʁ/
- Canada /swɑːʁ/
- /swɛː(ɾ)/
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to soir
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is soir in French?
soir appears 309 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).