souffrir
French, verb/su.fʁiʁ/
souffrir is a French verb meaning “to suffer” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Sentir de la douleur”.
What does souffrir mean in English?
verb
- 1
to suffer
souffrir d'une maladie héréditaire
- 2
to endure
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Action de souffrir.
verb: 1. Sentir de la douleur. 2. Éprouver de la peine, du dommage. 3. Être atteint de ; être contaminé par. 4. Éprouver des dommages, en parlant des choses.
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 souffrir
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- souffrant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- souffert participle past
- souffre first-person indicative present
- souffres indicative present second-person
- souffrons first-person indicative plural
- souffrez indicative plural present
- souffrent indicative plural present
- souffrais first-person imperfect indicative
- souffrait imperfect indicative singular
- souffrions first-person imperfect indicative
- souffriez imperfect indicative plural
- souffraient imperfect indicative plural
- souffris first-person historic indicative
- souffrit historic indicative past
- souffrîmes first-person historic indicative
- souffrîtes historic indicative past
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce souffrir?
- /su.fʁiʁ/
- \su.fʁiʁ\
- [su.fʁiʁ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to souffrir
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is souffrir in French?
souffrir appears 21 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).