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vagir

French, verb/va.ʒiʁ/

vagir is a French verb meaning “to wail; to howl; to bawl” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Pousser des vagissements”.

What does vagir mean in English?

verb

  1. 1

    to wail; to howl; to bawl

Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How French dictionaries define it

verb: 1. Pousser des vagissements.

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 vagir

  • avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
  • vagissant gerund participle present
  • ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
  • vagi participle past
  • vagis first-person indicative present
  • vagit indicative present singular
  • vagissons first-person indicative plural
  • vagissez indicative plural present
  • vagissent indicative plural present
  • vagissais first-person imperfect indicative
  • vagissait imperfect indicative singular
  • vagissions first-person imperfect indicative
  • vagissiez imperfect indicative plural
  • vagissaient imperfect indicative plural
  • vagîmes first-person historic indicative
  • vagîtes historic indicative past
  • vagirent historic indicative past
  • vagirai first-person future indicative

Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce vagir?

  • /va.ʒiʁ/
  • \va.ʒiʁ\

Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

English words that translate to vagir

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.