suffire
French, verb/sy.fiʁ/
suffire is spelled S-U-F-F-I-R-E (7 letters) and appears 4.3 times per million words in written French, the 12,541st most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Suffire is a French verb meaning “to be enough, to suffice” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Pouvoir satisfaire à quelque chose ou à un but donné”.
What does suffire mean in English?
verb
- 1
to be enough, to suffice
à chaque jour suffit sa peine
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Pouvoir satisfaire à quelque chose ou à un but donné. 2. Pouvoir subvenir ou pouvoir satisfaire aux exigences de quelqu’un. 3. Fournir assez, faire ce qui est nécessaire pour qu’une chose se réalise. 4. Être à la cause de quelque chose ; déclencher ou conditionner un évènement.
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 suffire
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- suffisant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- suffi participle past
- suffis first-person indicative present
- suffit indicative present singular
- suffisons first-person indicative plural
- suffisez indicative plural present
- suffisent indicative plural present
- suffisais first-person imperfect indicative
- suffisait imperfect indicative singular
- suffisions first-person imperfect indicative
- suffisiez imperfect indicative plural
- suffisaient imperfect indicative plural
- suffîmes first-person historic indicative
- suffîtes historic indicative past
- suffirent historic indicative past
- suffirai first-person future indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce suffire?
- /sy.fiʁ/
- \sy.fiʁ\
- [sy.fiʁ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to suffire
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is suffire in French?
suffire appears 4.3 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).