souvenir

Unadapted borrowing from French souvenir (literally “memory”); compare memento.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˌsuːvəˈnɪə/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈsu.vəˌnɪɹ/, /ˌsu.vəˈnɪɹ/
• (Hong Kong) IPA^(key): /ˌsoʊ.vəˈnɪ.ə/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Hyphenation: sou‧ve‧nir
• Rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)

souvenir (plural souvenirs)

1. An item of sentimental value, that is given or kept to remember an event or location.

   Synonyms: keepsake, memento, memorabilia

   • 2005, “Souvenir”, performed by Korn:

     Back then, nobody knew in the schoolyard
     Now then, you have grown up to be this hard
     Go then, walk through this world with your heart scarred
     You're the souvenir of sadness

   • 2005, Steven Church, Guinness Book of Me, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 138:

     The tourists stuck to the safe confines of the gift shop, where they bought souvenir combs, shot glasses, oversize pencils, and blocks of cedar painted with rhyming poems and shellacked to a high gloss.

• souvenier (obsolete)

• → Cantonese: souven

souvenir (third-person singular simple present souvenirs, present participle souveniring, simple past and past participle souvenired)

1. (transitive) To take (something) as a souvenir, especially illicitly, for example during wartime.
   • 1979, Gustav Hasford, The Short-Timers, New York: Bantam Books, published 1980, →ISBN, page 57:

     "Doubletime up to the ville and souvenir me one cute orphan, man, but be sure you get a dirty one, a really skuzzy one."

   • 2017, Fiona Farrell, Decline and Fall on Savage Street, →ISBN, page 84:

     The word is they're waiting for some blokes who had gone off souveniring before the order was announced.

Unadapted borrowing from French souvenir.

• IPA^(key): /su.vəˈnir/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: sou‧ve‧nir

souvenir n (plural souvenirs, diminutive souvenirtje n)

1. souvenir

• aandenken
• gedachtenis

• → Indonesian: suvenir

Inherited from Middle French soubvenir, from Old French sovenir, from Latin subvenīre (“come to mind, occur to”), from sub + veniō. Doublet of subvenir.

• IPA^(key): /su.v(ə).niʁ/

• Audio; “se souvenir”:

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souvenir

1. (pronominal) to remember [with de ‘someone/something’; or with que (+ clause) ‘that ...’]

   Synonym: rappeler

   il faut se souvenir que... ― It's necessary to remember that...

   Je me souviens de toi. ― I remember you.

   Est-ce que vous vous souvenez de ce que vous m’avez dit la semaine dernière ?

   Do you remember what you told me last week?

This is a verb in a group of -ir verbs. All verbs ending in -venir, such as convenir and devenir, are conjugated this way. Such verbs are the only verbs whose the past historic and subjunctive imperfect endings do not start in one of these thematic vowels (-a-, -i-, -u-).

• se souvenir

souvenir m (plural souvenirs)

1. memory (mental picture)

   Je n’ai pas le souvenir de t’avoir dit ça…

   I don't remember telling you that…

   (literally, “I don't have the memory of me having told you that…”)

2. souvenir

   J’ai ramené un souvenir de Paris.

   I have brought back a souvenir of Paris.

• jour du Souvenir

• “souvenir”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

souvênir

1. nonstandard form of suvenir.

Unadapted borrowing from French souvenir.

• IPA^(key): /su.veˈnir/^[1]
• Rhymes: -ir

souvenir m (invariable)

1. souvenir

• souvenir in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

• universo

souvenir

1. Alternative form of sovenir

This verb conjugates as a third-group verb. This verb has a stressed present stem souvien distinct from the unstressed stem souven, as well as other irregularities. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.

• suvenir

Unadapted borrowing from French souvenir.

• IPA^(key): /subeˈniɾ/ [su.β̞eˈniɾ]
• Rhymes: -iɾ

souvenir m (plural souvenirs)

1. souvenir

   Synonym: recuerdo

   • 2015 July 8, “Resumen del día de El País América - 7 de julio”, in El País‎^[1]:

     Y eso aumenta la presión sobre México: el otrora “gigante de Concacaf”: el campeón de los ratings en las transmisiones y una de las selecciones con más ganancias por venta de jerséis y souvenires alusivos al equipo en el mundo.

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According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.

• “souvenir”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28

Unadapted borrowing from French souvenir.

souvenir c

1. souvenir

• souvenir in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• souvenir in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• souvenir in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)