sauver
French, verb/so.ve/
sauver is a French verb meaning “to save, rescue; to protect” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Garantir ; préserver ; tirer du péril ; mettre en sûreté”.
What does sauver mean in English?
verb
- 1
to save, rescue; to protect
- 2
to save
- 3
to escape, run away
La porte était ouverte et le chat s'était sauvé.
- 4
to save (conserve, prevent the wasting of)
Ça réduit le gaspillage et sauve de l'argent.
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Garantir ; préserver ; tirer du péril ; mettre en sûreté. 2. Soustraire aux peines de la vie future ; donner, assurer le salut éternel à. 3. Épargner une chose à quelqu’un, l’en exempter. 4. …
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 sauver
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- sauvant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- sauvé participle past
- sauve first-person indicative present
- sauves indicative present second-person
- sauvons first-person indicative plural
- sauvez indicative plural present
- sauvent indicative plural present
- sauvais first-person imperfect indicative
- sauvait imperfect indicative singular
- sauvions first-person imperfect indicative
- sauviez imperfect indicative plural
- sauvaient imperfect indicative plural
- sauvai first-person historic indicative
- sauvas historic indicative past
- sauva historic indicative past
- sauvâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce sauver?
- /so.ve/
- \so.ve\
- [so.ve]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to sauver
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is sauver in French?
sauver appears 46 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).