sortir

Catalan

Etymology

Inherited from Old Catalan sortir (compare Occitan sortir), from Latin sortīrī (“select”), probably influenced by surrectus (through a Vulgar Latin form *surctus and its derivatives, possibly through a verb *surrectīre, surctīre; cf. also Old Catalan surt, surta).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic)
• IPA^(key): (Valencian)
• Homophone: sortí
• Rhymes: -i(ɾ)

Verb

sortir (first-person singular present surto, first-person singular preterite sortí, past participle sortit)

1. to go out, to leave

   Synonyms: marxar, (chiefly Valencian) eixir

   Antonym: entrar

2. to go out (to leave one's abode to go to public places, especially for recreation or entertainment)
3. to come out, to appear, to emerge

   Synonyms: aparèixer, emergir

   Ja li han sortit arrugues a la cara. ― Wrinkles have already appeared on his/her face.

4. to come out, to be published, to be made known
5. to end up, to turn out

   sortir bé ― to come out well

6. (reflexive, takes a reflexive pronoun) to manage to get out of a difficult situation successfully (requires a reflexive pronoun according the subject, and the appropriate form of the adverbial pronoun en)

   Ho tenia difícil, però se'n va sortir prou bé ― It was difficult for him, but he did well enough

Conjugation

Derived terms

References

• “sortir” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “sortir”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “sortir” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “sortir” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Franco-Provençal

Etymology

From Latin sortīrī (“to select”) (present active infinitive of sortior), probably influenced by surrectus (through a Vulgar Latin form *surctus and its derivatives, possibly through a verb *surrectīre, surctīre). Compare French sortir, Italian sortire, compare also Spanish surtir.

Verb

sortir

1. (intransitive) to exit, go out, come out
2. (transitive) to take out, bring out

Conjugation

    Conjugation of sortir

		simple			compound
infinitive		sortir			étre sorti
gerund		sortent			étent sorti
auxiliary verb		étre
past participle		masculine			feminine
	singular	sorti
	plural
		singular			plural
		1st person	2nd person	3rd person	1st person	2nd person	3rd person
indicative		jo (j')	tu (t')	il/elli	nos	vos	ils
	present	sorto	sors	sort	sortens	sortids	sortont
	imperfect	sortien	sortias	sortiêt	sortians	sortiâds	sortiant
	preterite	sorti	sortis	sortit	sortirons	sortites, sortirâds	sortiront
	future	sortiré	sortirés	sortirat	sortirens	sortiréds	sortiront
	conditional	sortiren	sortirias	sortirêt	sortirians	sortiriâds	sortiriant
compound tenses	present perfect	present indicative of étre + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect indicative of étre + past participle
	past anterior	preterite indicative of étre + past participle
	future perfect	future indicative of étre + past participle
	conditional perfect	conditional of étre + past participle
subjunctive		que je (j')	que te (t')	qu'il/el	que nos	que vos	qu'ils/els
	present	sorto	sortes	sorte	sortans	sortiâds	sortant
	imperfect	sortissen	sortissias	sortisse	sortissians	sortissiâds	sortissant
compound tenses	past	present subjunctive of étre + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect subjunctive of étre + past participle
imperative		—	te	—	nos	vos	—
			sors		sortens	sortids

French

Etymology

Inherited from Old French, from Latin sortīrī, probably influenced by surrectus (through a Vulgar Latin form *surctus and its derivatives, possibly through a verb *surrectīre, surctīre). Compare Italian sortire, compare also Spanish surtir.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sɔʁ.tiʁ/

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Verb

sortir

1. (intransitive) to exit, go out, come out

   Je suis sorti de l’école. ― I came out of school.

2. (transitive) to take out, bring out

   Je sortais les poubelles tous les mardis et les jeudis soirs. ― I used to take out the trash every Tuesday and Thursday evenings.

Usage notes

• This verb uses the auxiliary verb avoir when used transitively (or with a transitive sense, even when the complement is omitted); otherwise (when it is intransitive), it uses être.

Conjugation

This is one of a fairly large group of irregular -ir verbs that are all conjugated the same way. Other members of this group include partir and dormir. The most significant difference between these verbs' conjugation and that of the regular -ir verbs is that these verbs' conjugation does not use the infix -iss-. Further, this conjugation has the forms (je, tu) sors and (il) sort in the present indicative and imperative, whereas a regular -ir verb would have *sortis and *sortit (as in the past historic).

Derived terms

See also

• partir

Noun

sortir m (plural sortirs)

1. end, closing

   Au sortir du printemps

   At the closing of spring

Derived terms

• au sortir de

Further reading

• “sortir”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.

Indonesian

Etymology

From Dutch sorteer, sorteren, from French assortir, from Old French, from Latin sortīrī, present active infinitive of sortior, probably influenced by surrectus (through a Vulgar Latin form *surctus and its derivatives, possibly through a verb *surrectīre, surctīre).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):
• Hyphenation: sor‧tir

Verb

sortir

1. sort; arrange

   menyortir surat-surat ― sorting letters

Derived terms

Further reading

• “sortir” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.

Norman

Alternative forms

• sorti (Jersey)

Etymology

From Old French, from Latin sortīrī, present active infinitive of sortior, probably influenced by surrectus (through a Vulgar Latin form *surctus and its derivatives, possibly through a verb *surrectīre, surctīre).

Verb

sortir

1. (Guernsey) to go out

Portuguese

Etymology

Inherited from Latin sortīrī (“to draw lots”). Doublet of surtir, a borrowing from French.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: sor‧tir

Verb

sortir (first-person singular present surto, third-person singular present surte, first-person singular preterite sorti, past participle sortido) (Brazil)
sortir (no stressed present indicative or subjunctive, first-person singular preterite sorti, past participle sortido) (Portugal)

1. (transitive) to provide, to supply
2. (transitive) to mix, to mingle, to combine (different things)
3. (impersonal) to happen by luck, to fall to one's lot
4. (reflexive) to stock up, to provide oneself

Conjugation

Brazil

Portugal

Related terms

• surtir

Romansch

Alternative forms

• sorteir (Surmiran)

Etymology

From Latin sortīrī, present active infinitive of sortior, probably influenced by surrectus (through a Vulgar Latin form *surctus and its derivatives, possibly through a verb *surrectīre, surctīre). Compare Italian sortire, French sortir.

Verb

sortir

1. (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Sutsilvan, Puter, Vallader) to exit