unir
French, verb/y.niʁ/
unir is spelled U-N-I-R (4 letters) and appears 5.4 times per million words in written French, the 10,655th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Unir is a French verb meaning “to unite, join” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Joindre deux ou plusieurs choses ensemble”.
What does unir mean in English?
verb
- 1
to unite, join
- 2
to combine
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Joindre deux ou plusieurs choses ensemble. 2. Se dit figurément en parlant des personnes qui ont des liens entre elles. 3. Rendre égal, ôter les inégalités, aplanir une surface raboteuse.
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 unir
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- unissant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- uni participle past
- unis first-person indicative present
- unit indicative present singular
- unissons first-person indicative plural
- unissez indicative plural present
- unissent indicative plural present
- unissais first-person imperfect indicative
- unissait imperfect indicative singular
- unissions first-person imperfect indicative
- unissiez imperfect indicative plural
- unissaient imperfect indicative plural
- unîmes first-person historic indicative
- unîtes historic indicative past
- unirent historic indicative past
- unirai first-person future indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce unir?
- /y.niʁ/
- \y.niʁ\
- [y.niʁ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to unir
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is unir in French?
unir appears 5.4 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).