guérir

== French == === Alternative forms === garir (obsolete) === Etymology === Inherited from Middle French guérir, guerir, garir, from Old French garir, guarir (“to guarantee, protect, give health to”), from Frankish *warjan (“to defend, protect”), from Proto-Germanic *warjaną (“to defend, guard”), from Proto-Indo-European *wer- (“to cover, defend, guard, heed”). Cognate with Occitan garir, Catalan and Spanish guarir, Italian guarire, Old High German werien (“to defend, protect”) and Old English werian (“to guard, keep, defend”). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ɡe.ʁiʁ/ === Verb === guérir (transitive) to cure, to heal Le médecin va le guérir. ― The doctor is going to heal it. (transitive, figurative) to cure, to heal (intransitive or pronominal, with passive sense) to recover, to heal Il se guérira peu à peu. ― It will heal little by little. ==== Conjugation ==== This is a regular verb of the second conjugation, like finir, choisir, and most other verbs with infinitives ending in -ir. One salient feature of this conjugation is the repeated appearance of the infix -iss-. This is a regular verb of the second conjugation, like finir, choisir, and most other verbs with infinitives ending in -ir. One salient feature of this conjugation is the repeated appearance of the infix -iss-. ==== Derived terms ==== mieux vaut prévenir que guérir ==== Related terms ==== guérison guérissable inguérissable guérisseur ==== Descendants ==== Haitian Creole: geri === Further reading === “guérir”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012