sortir
French, noun/sɔʁ.tiʁ/
sortir is spelled S-O-R-T-I-R (6 letters) and appears 155 times per million words in written French, the 528th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Sortir is a French masculine noun meaning “end, closing” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
What does sortir mean in English?
verb
- 1
to exit, go out, come out
Je suis sorti de l'école.
- 2
to take out, bring out
Je sortais les poubelles tous les mardis et les jeudis soirs.
verb
- 1
obsoleteto have or take
- 2
to organise; put by sort
noun
- 1
masculineend, closing
Au sortir du printemps
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Passer du dedans vers le dehors. 2. Quitter la maison pour se promener, pour faire des visites, etc. 3. Partir de chez soi pour prendre du bon temps. 4. Quitter sa chambre de malade pour commencer sa convalescence.
verb: 1. Obtenir, avoir.
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 sortir
- avoir infinitive multiword-construction
- être + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- sortant gerund participle present
- ayant gerund multiword-construction participle
- étant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- sorti participle past
- sors first-person indicative present
- sort indicative present singular
- sortons first-person indicative plural
- sortez indicative plural present
- sortent indicative plural present
- sortais first-person imperfect indicative
- sortait imperfect indicative singular
- sortions first-person imperfect indicative
- sortiez imperfect indicative plural
- sortaient imperfect indicative plural
- sortis first-person historic indicative
- sortit historic indicative past
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce sortir?
- /sɔʁ.tiʁ/
- \sɔʁ.tiʁ\
- [sɔʁ.tiʁ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to sortir
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is sortir in French?
sortir appears 155 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).