sortir

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).

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [surˈti]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [soɾˈtiɾ]
• Homophone: sortí
• Rhymes: -i(ɾ)

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, pronominal) 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

• “sortir”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “sortir”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
• “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.

Compare French sortir.

sortir (ORB, broad)

1. to leave, exit

• sortir in DicoFranPro: Dictionnaire Français/Francoprovençal – on dicofranpro.llm.umontreal.ca
• sortir in Lo trèsor Arpitan – on arpitan.eu

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.

• IPA^(key): /sɔʁ.tiʁ/

• Audio:

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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.

• 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.

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).

• partir

sortir (defective)

1. (law, obsolete) to have or take [effect]
   • 1887, Christ-Frédéric Masson, chapter 2, in Bobigny (lez-Paris) : la seigneurie, commune et la paroisse de l'an 450 jusqu'à nos jours‎^[1], page 197:

     ...au résidu, la dite sentence sortissant son plein et entier effet; et, pour mettre le présent arrêt à exécution, la dite cour a renvoyé et renvoi le dict Tesnier pardevant les gens des monnoies.

     ...to the remainder, the said sentence taking its full & entire effect; &, in order to put the present ruling into action, the said court has sent & sends the said Tesnier before the men of the mints.

2. (business) to organise; put by sort

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). This verb is conjugated only in the third person.

sortir m (plural sortirs)

1. end, closing

   Au sortir du printemps

   At the closing of spring

• au sortir de

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

From Dutch sorteer, sorteren, from French assortir, 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).

• IPA^(key): [ˈsɔrtɪr]
• Hyphenation: sor‧tir

sortir

1. sort; arrange

   menyortir surat-surat ― sorting letters

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

• sorti (Jersey)

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).

sortir

1. (Guernsey) to go out
   • 1903, Edgar MacCulloch, “Proverbs, Weather Sayings, etc.”, in Guernsey Folk Lore‎^[2], pages 531-32:

     Mars qui entre coume ùn agné sortira coume ùn touaré.

     March that enters like a lamb will leave like a bull.

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

• Hyphenation: sor‧tir

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 [with com ‘with’]
2. (transitive) to mix, to mingle, to combine (different things)
3. (impersonal) to happen by luck, to fall to one's lot [with a ‘someone’]
4. (reflexive) to stock up, to provide oneself [with com ‘with’]

Brazil

Portugal

• surtir

• sorteir (Surmiran)

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, French sortir.

sortir

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