visiter
See also: vîsiter
English
Noun
visiter (plural visiters)
- Archaic form of visitor.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for visiter in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)
Anagrams
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin vīsitāre, present active infinitive of vīsitō (“I see, I visit”). Compare the popular form in Old French, visder.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /vi.zi.te/
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Verb
visiter
- to visit (a place)
- Tu dois visiter Paris un jour.
- You must visit Paris one day
- Tu dois visiter Paris un jour.
Usage notes
Visiter is only used for places. In French they say "rendre visite à" for people, i.e. "Je rends visite à mon père à Paris. = I'm visiting my father in Paris.
Conjugation
Conjugation of visiter (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| infinitive | visiter | avoir visité | |||||
| gerund | en visitant | en ayant visité | |||||
| present participle | visitant /vi.zi.tɑ̃/ | ||||||
| past participle | visité /vi.zi.te/ | ||||||
| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il | nous | vous | ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | visite /vi.zit/ |
visites /vi.zit/ |
visite /vi.zit/ |
visitons /vi.zi.tɔ̃/ |
visitez /vi.zi.te/ |
visitent /vi.zit/ |
| imperfect | visitais /vi.zi.tɛ/ |
visitais /vi.zi.tɛ/ |
visitait /vi.zi.tɛ/ |
visitions /vi.zi.tjɔ̃/ |
visitiez /vi.zi.tje/ |
visitaient /vi.zi.tɛ/ | |
| past historic1 | visitai /vi.zi.te/ |
visitas /vi.zi.ta/ |
visita /vi.zi.ta/ |
visitâmes /vi.zi.tam/ |
visitâtes /vi.zi.tat/ |
visitèrent /vi.zi.tɛʁ/ | |
| future | visiterai /vi.zi.tʁe/ |
visiteras /vi.zi.tʁa/ |
visitera /vi.zi.tʁa/ |
visiterons /vi.zi.tʁɔ̃/ |
visiterez /vi.zi.tʁe/ |
visiteront /vi.zi.tʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | visiterais /vi.zi.tʁɛ/ |
visiterais /vi.zi.tʁɛ/ |
visiterait /vi.zi.tʁɛ/ |
visiterions /vi.zi.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
visiteriez /vi.zi.tə.ʁje/ |
visiteraient /vi.zi.tʁɛ/ | |
| compound tenses |
present perfect | Use the present tense of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | Use the imperfect tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| past anterior1 | Use the past historic tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| future perfect | Use the future tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| conditional perfect | Use the conditional tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il | que nous | que vous | qu’ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | visite /vi.zit/ |
visites /vi.zit/ |
visite /vi.zit/ |
visitions /vi.zi.tjɔ̃/ |
visitiez /vi.zi.tje/ |
visitent /vi.zit/ |
| imperfect1 | visitasse /vi.zi.tas/ |
visitasses /vi.zi.tas/ |
visitât /vi.zi.ta/ |
visitassions /vi.zi.ta.sjɔ̃/ |
visitassiez /vi.zi.ta.sje/ |
visitassent /vi.zi.tas/ | |
| compound tenses |
past | Use the present subjunctive tense of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect1 | Use the imperfect subjunctive tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | tu | – | nous | vous | – | |
| — | visite /vi.zit/ |
— | visitons /vi.zi.tɔ̃/ |
visitez /vi.zi.te/ |
— | ||
| 1literary tenses | |||||||
Related terms
Further reading
- “visiter” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Latin
Verb
vīsiter
- first-person singular present passive subjunctive of vīsitō
Middle French
Verb
visiter
- to visit (a person or a place)
Conjugation
- Middle French conjugation varies from one text to another. Hence, the following conjugation should be considered as typical, not as exhaustive.
Conjugation of visiter
| simple | compound | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| infinitive | visiter | avoir visité | |||||
| gerund | en visitant | Use the gerund of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| present participle | visitant | ||||||
| past participle | visité | ||||||
| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | ie (may be i' before a vowel) | tu | il | nous | vous | ilz, elles | |
| simple tenses |
present | visite | visites | visite | visitons | visitez | visitent |
| imperfect | visitois, visitoys | visitois, visitoys | visitoit, visitoyt | visitions, visityons | visitiez, visityez | visitoient, visitoyent | |
| past historic | visita | visitas | visita | visitasmes | visitastes | visiterent | |
| future | visiterai, visiteray | visiteras | visitera | visiterons | visiterez | visiteront | |
| conditional | visiterois, visiteroys | visiterois, visiteroys | visiteroit, visiteroyt | visiterions, visiteryons | visiteriez, visiteryez | visiteroient, visiteroyent | |
| compound tenses |
present perfect | Use the present tense of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | Use the imperfect tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| past anterior | Use the past historic tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| future perfect | Use the future tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| conditional perfect | Use the conditional tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| subjunctive | que ie | que tu | qu'il | que nous | que vous | qu'ilz, qu'elles | |
| simple tenses |
present | visite | visites | visite | visitons | visitez | visitent |
| imperfect | visitasse | visitasses | visitast | visitassions | visitassiez | visitassent | |
| compound tenses |
past | Use the present subjunctive of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | Use the imperfect subjunctive of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | tu | – | nous | vous | – | |
| — | visite | — | visitons | visitez | — | ||
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