soucier
French, verb/su.sje/
soucier is spelled S-O-U-C-I-E-R (7 letters) and appears 5.1 times per million words in written French, the 11,014th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Soucier is a French verb meaning “to worry” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Causer de l’inquiétude, du souci à quelqu’un ; chagriner, préoccuper quelqu’un”.
What does soucier mean in English?
verb
- 1
datedto worry
- 2
to worry (experience or feel worry)
De quoi vous souciez-vous ?
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Causer de l’inquiétude, du souci à quelqu’un ; chagriner, préoccuper quelqu’un. 2. S’inquiéter, se mettre en peine de quelque chose ou de quelqu'un, prendre intérêt à quelque chose. 3. Se moquer de, n’attacher aucune importance à.
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 soucier
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- souciant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- soucié participle past
- soucie first-person indicative present
- soucies indicative present second-person
- soucions first-person indicative plural
- souciez indicative plural present
- soucient indicative plural present
- souciais first-person imperfect indicative
- souciait imperfect indicative singular
- souciions first-person imperfect indicative
- souciiez imperfect indicative plural
- souciaient imperfect indicative plural
- souciai first-person historic indicative
- soucias historic indicative past
- soucia historic indicative past
- souciâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce soucier?
- /su.sje/
- \su.sje\
- [su.sje]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is soucier in French?
soucier appears 5.1 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).