souvenir
SubstantivVerbhäufig in Dialogen
- Vereinigtes Königreich//ˌsuː.vəˈnɪə//
- Vereinigte Staaten//ˈsu.vəˌnɪɹ//
- //ˌsoʊ.vəˈnɪ.ə//
An item of sentimental value, that is given or kept to remember an event or location.
Substantiv
- 1
An item of sentimental value, that is given or kept to remember an event or location.
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
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.
Herkunft
Unadapted borrowing from French souvenir (literally “memory”). Compare memento.
Verb
- 1
To take (something) as a souvenir, especially illicitly, for example during wartime.
"Doubletime up to the ville and souvenir me one cute orphan, man, but be sure you get a dirty one, a really skuzzy one."
The word is they're waiting for some blokes who had gone off souveniring before the order was announced.
Formen
- Plural
- souvenirs
- Präteritum
- souvenired
- Partizip II
- souvenired
- Partizip I
- souveniring
- 3. Person Singular
- souvenirs
souvenir · An item of sentimental value, that is given or kept to remember an event or location.
sovereign · Exercising power of rule.Sovereign · The title of a monarch.soviet · Pertaining to or resembling a soviet (council).