finir
French, verb/fi.niʁ/
finir is a French verb meaning “to finish, end, complete” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Achever, terminer, arriver à échéance, cesser, finaliser”.
What does finir mean in English?
verb
- 1
to finish, end, complete
J'ai fini les devoirs hier.
- 2
to end up
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Achever, terminer, arriver à échéance, cesser, finaliser. 2. Exécuter avec un soin minutieux. 3. Être la fin ou le terme de quelque chose. 4. Terminer l’action indiquée par le verbe à l’infinitif.
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 finir
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- finissant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- fini participle past
- finis first-person indicative present
- finit indicative present singular
- finissons first-person indicative plural
- finissez indicative plural present
- finissent indicative plural present
- finissais first-person imperfect indicative
- finissait imperfect indicative singular
- finissions first-person imperfect indicative
- finissiez imperfect indicative plural
- finissaient imperfect indicative plural
- finîmes first-person historic indicative
- finîtes historic indicative past
- finirent historic indicative past
- finirai first-person future indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce finir?
- /fi.niʁ/
- \fi.niʁ\
- [fi.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 finir
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is finir in French?
finir appears 65 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).