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) [surˈti]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [soɾˈtiɾ]

• Audio (Catalonia):

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• 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, 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

Conjugation

    Conjugation of sortir (third conjugation, without -eix-, irregular)

infinitive			sortir
gerund			sortint
past participle				masculine		feminine
		singular		sortit		sortida
		plural		sortits		sortides
person		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		jo	tu	ell/ella vostè	nosaltres nós	vosaltres vós	ells/elles vostès
	present	surto	surts	surt	sortim	sortiu	surten
	imperfect	sortia	sorties	sortia	sortíem	sortíeu	sortien
	future	sortiré	sortiràs	sortirà	sortirem	sortireu	sortiran
	preterite	sortí	sortires	sortí	sortírem	sortíreu	sortiren
	conditional	sortiria	sortiries	sortiria	sortiríem	sortiríeu	sortirien
subjunctive		jo	tu	ell/ella vostè	nosaltres nós	vosaltres vós	ells/elles vostès
	present	surti	surtis	surti	sortim	sortiu	surtin
	imperfect	sortís	sortissis	sortís	sortíssim	sortíssiu	sortissin
imperative		—	tu	vostè	nosaltres	vosaltres vós	vostès
	affirmative	—	surt	surti	sortim	sortiu	surtin
	negative (no)	—	no surtis	no surti	no sortim	no sortiu	no surtin

Derived terms

• ressortir
• sobresortir
• sortida
• sortidor
• sortir de l'armari
• sortir-se'n

References

• “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.

Franco-Provençal

Etymology

Compare French sortir.

Verb

sortir (ORB, broad)

1. to leave, exit

Conjugation

    Conjugation of sortir

		simple			compound
infinitive		sortir			étre sorti
gerund		sortent			étent sorti
auxiliary verb		étre
past participle		masculine			feminine
	singular	sorti			[Term?]
	plural	[Term?]			[Term?]
		singular			plural
		1st person	2nd person	3rd person	1st person	2nd person	3rd person
indicative		jo	te	il	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 jo	que te	qu'il	que nos	que vos	qu'ils
	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

References

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

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).

Conjugation of sortir (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	sortir
	compound	avoir or être + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	sortant /sɔʁ.tɑ̃/
	compound	ayant or étant + past participle
past participle		sorti /sɔʁ.ti/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	sors /sɔʁ/	sors /sɔʁ/	sort /sɔʁ/	sortons /sɔʁ.tɔ̃/	sortez /sɔʁ.te/	sortent /sɔʁt/
	imperfect	sortais /sɔʁ.tɛ/	sortais /sɔʁ.tɛ/	sortait /sɔʁ.tɛ/	sortions /sɔʁ.tjɔ̃/	sortiez /sɔʁ.tje/	sortaient /sɔʁ.tɛ/
	past historic2	sortis /sɔʁ.ti/	sortis /sɔʁ.ti/	sortit /sɔʁ.ti/	sortîmes /sɔʁ.tim/	sortîtes /sɔʁ.tit/	sortirent /sɔʁ.tiʁ/
	future	sortirai /sɔʁ.ti.ʁe/	sortiras /sɔʁ.ti.ʁa/	sortira /sɔʁ.ti.ʁa/	sortirons /sɔʁ.ti.ʁɔ̃/	sortirez /sɔʁ.ti.ʁe/	sortiront /sɔʁ.ti.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	sortirais /sɔʁ.ti.ʁɛ/	sortirais /sɔʁ.ti.ʁɛ/	sortirait /sɔʁ.ti.ʁɛ/	sortirions /sɔʁ.ti.ʁjɔ̃/	sortiriez /sɔʁ.ti.ʁje/	sortiraient /sɔʁ.ti.ʁɛ/
(compound tenses)	present perfect	present indicative of avoir or être + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect indicative of avoir or être + past participle
	past anterior2	past historic of avoir or être + past participle
	future perfect	future of avoir or être + past participle
	conditional perfect	conditional of avoir or être + past participle
subjunctive		que je (j’)	que tu	qu’il, qu’elle	que nous	que vous	qu’ils, qu’elles
(simple tenses)	present	sorte /sɔʁt/	sortes /sɔʁt/	sorte /sɔʁt/	sortions /sɔʁ.tjɔ̃/	sortiez /sɔʁ.tje/	sortent /sɔʁt/
	imperfect2	sortisse /sɔʁ.tis/	sortisses /sɔʁ.tis/	sortît /sɔʁ.ti/	sortissions /sɔʁ.ti.sjɔ̃/	sortissiez /sɔʁ.ti.sje/	sortissent /sɔʁ.tis/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir or être + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir or être + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	sors /sɔʁ/	—	sortons /sɔʁ.tɔ̃/	sortez /sɔʁ.te/	—
compound		—	simple imperative of avoir or être + past participle	—	simple imperative of avoir or être + past participle	simple imperative of avoir or être + past participle	—
1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Derived terms

• le petit oiseau va sortir
• ne pas avoir le cul sorti des ronces
• ne pas être sorti de l'auberge
• ne pas être sorti des ronces
• ressortir
• se croire sorti de la cuisse de Jupiter
• se sortir les doigts du cul
• s'en sortir
• sorti d'affaire
• sortie
• sortir de l'ombre
• sortir de l'ordinaire
• sortir de nulle part
• sortir de ses gonds
• sortir des bornes
• sortir des sentiers battus
• sortir du lot
• sortir du placard
• sortir la tête de l'eau
• sortir le grand jeu
• sortir par les trous de nez

See also

• partir

Verb

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, 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

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

Conjugation of sortir (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	sortir
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	sortant /sɔʁ.tɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		sorti /sɔʁ.ti/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	—	—	sort /sɔʁ/	—	—	sortent /sɔʁt/
	imperfect	—	—	sortait /sɔʁ.tɛ/	—	—	sortaient /sɔʁ.tɛ/
	past historic2	—	—	sortit /sɔʁ.ti/	—	—	sortirent /sɔʁ.tiʁ/
	future	—	—	sortira /sɔʁ.ti.ʁa/	—	—	sortiront /sɔʁ.ti.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	—	—	sortirait /sɔʁ.ti.ʁɛ/	—	—	sortiraient /sɔʁ.ti.ʁɛ/
(compound tenses)	present perfect	present indicative of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle
	past anterior2	past historic of avoir + past participle
	future perfect	future of avoir + past participle
	conditional perfect	conditional of avoir + past participle
subjunctive		que je (j’)	que tu	qu’il, qu’elle	que nous	que vous	qu’ils, qu’elles
(simple tenses)	present	—	—	sorte /sɔʁt/	—	—	sortent /sɔʁt/
	imperfect2	—	—	sortît /sɔʁ.ti/	—	—	sortissent /sɔʁ.tis/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	—	—	—	—	—
compound		—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—
1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

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 [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Indonesian

Etymology

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).

Pronunciation

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

Verb

sortir

1. sort; arrange

   menyortir surat-surat ― sorting letters

Derived terms

• menyortir
• penyortir
• penyortiran
• sortiran

Further reading

• “sortir”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

Norman

Alternative forms

• sorti (Jersey)

Etymology

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).

Verb

sortir

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

     Mars qui entre coume ùn agné sortira coume ùn touaré.

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

Portuguese

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /soʁˈt͡ʃi(ʁ)/ [sohˈt͡ʃi(h)]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /soʁˈt͡ʃi(ʁ)/ [sohˈt͡ʃi(h)]
  • (São Paulo) IPA^(key): /soɾˈt͡ʃi(ɾ)/
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /soʁˈt͡ʃi(ʁ)/ [soχˈt͡ʃi(χ)]
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /soɻˈt͡ʃi(ɻ)/

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /suɾˈtiɾ/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /suɾˈtiɾ/
  • (Southern Portugal) IPA^(key): /suɾˈti.ɾi/

• 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 [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’]

Conjugation

Brazil

    Conjugation of sortir (o becomes u when stressed) (See Appendix:Portuguese verbs)

	Singular			Plural
	First-person (eu)	Second-person (tu)	Third-person (ele / ela / você)	First-person (nós)	Second-person (vós)	Third-person (eles / elas / vocês)
Infinitive
Impersonal	sortir
Personal	sortir	sortires	sortir	sortirmos	sortirdes	sortirem
Gerund
	sortindo
Past participle
Masculine	sortido			sortidos
Feminine	sortida			sortidas
Indicative
Present	surto	surtes	surte	sortimos	sortis	surtem
Imperfect	sortia	sortias	sortia	sortíamos	sortíeis	sortiam
Preterite	sorti	sortiste	sortiu	sortimos	sortistes	sortiram
Pluperfect	sortira	sortiras	sortira	sortíramos	sortíreis	sortiram
Future	sortirei	sortirás	sortirá	sortiremos	sortireis	sortirão
Conditional	sortiria	sortirias	sortiria	sortiríamos	sortiríeis	sortiriam
Subjunctive
Present	surta	surtas	surta	surtamos	surtais	surtam
Imperfect	sortisse	sortisses	sortisse	sortíssemos	sortísseis	sortissem
Future	sortir	sortires	sortir	sortirmos	sortirdes	sortirem
Imperative
Affirmative		surte	surta	surtamos	sorti	surtam
Negative (não)		não surtas	não surta	não surtamos	não surtais	não surtam

Portugal

    Conjugation of sortir (defective) (See Appendix:Portuguese verbs)

	Singular			Plural
	First-person (eu)	Second-person (tu)	Third-person (ele / ela / você)	First-person (nós)	Second-person (vós)	Third-person (eles / elas / vocês)
Infinitive
Impersonal	sortir
Personal	sortir	sortires	sortir	sortirmos	sortirdes	sortirem
Gerund
	sortindo
Past participle
Masculine	sortido			sortidos
Feminine	sortida			sortidas
Indicative
Present	—	—	—	sortimos	sortis	—
Imperfect	sortia	sortias	sortia	sortíamos	sortíeis	sortiam
Preterite	sorti	sortiste	sortiu	sortimos	sortistes	sortiram
Pluperfect	sortira	sortiras	sortira	sortíramos	sortíreis	sortiram
Future	sortirei	sortirás	sortirá	sortiremos	sortireis	sortirão
Conditional	sortiria	sortirias	sortiria	sortiríamos	sortiríeis	sortiriam
Subjunctive
Present	—	—	—	—	—	—
Imperfect	sortisse	sortisses	sortisse	sortíssemos	sortísseis	sortissem
Future	sortir	sortires	sortir	sortirmos	sortirdes	sortirem
Imperative
Affirmative		—	—	—	sorti	—
Negative (não)		—	—	—	—	—

Related terms

• surtir

Further reading

• “sortir”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2025
• “sortir”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

Romansch

Alternative forms

• sorteir (Surmiran)

Etymology

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.

Verb

sortir

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