désirer
French, verb/de.zi.ʁe/
désirer is a French verb meaning “to desire, want” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Vouloir posséder un bien ou un avantage qu’on n’a pas”.
What does désirer mean in English?
verb
- 1
to desire, want
Near-synonym: vouloir
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Vouloir posséder un bien ou un avantage qu’on n’a pas. 2. Souhaiter. 3. Éprouver un désir charnel pour un homme ou une femme, avoir envie de faire l’amour avec cette personne.
verb: 1. Variante orthographique de désirer.
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 désirer
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- désirant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- désiré participle past
- désire first-person indicative present
- désires indicative present second-person
- désirons first-person indicative plural
- désirez indicative plural present
- désirent indicative plural present
- désirais first-person imperfect indicative
- désirait imperfect indicative singular
- désirions first-person imperfect indicative
- désiriez imperfect indicative plural
- désiraient imperfect indicative plural
- désirai first-person historic indicative
- désiras historic indicative past
- désira historic indicative past
- désirâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce désirer?
- /de.zi.ʁe/
- \de.zi.ʁe\
- [de.zi.ʁe]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to désirer
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is désirer in French?
désirer appears 3.8 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).