voir

French

Etymology

From Old French veoir, veir, from earlier vedeir, from Latin vidēre, present active infinitive of videō, from Proto-Italic *widēō, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *weyd-.

See cognates in regional languages in France : Norman veî or veir, Gallo vair, Picard vir, Bourguignon voi, Franco-Provençal vêre, Occitan veire or véser, Corsican vedè.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /vwaʁ/
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  • (Louisiana) IPA(key): [(v)wɒ(ɾ)]
  • Homophone: voire
  • Rhymes: -waʁ

Verb

voir

  1. to see (visually)
    Je vois ma mère là-bas.
    I see my mother over there.
  2. to see (to understand)
    Tu vois que tu avais tort ?
    Do you see that you were wrong?
  3. to see (to visit, to go and see)

Conjugation

Verbs derived from voir form their future and conditional forms using the root verr- instead of the vr- or voir- of other verbs.

  Conjugation of voir (see also Appendix:French verbs)
simple compound
infinitive voir avoir vu
gerund en voyant en ayant vu
present participle voyant
/vwa.jɑ̃/
past participle vu
/vy/
person singular plural
first second third first second third
indicative je (j’) tu il nous vous ils
simple
tenses		 present vois
/vwa/		 vois
/vwa/		 voit
/vwa/		 voyons
/vwa.jɔ̃/		 voyez
/vwa.je/		 voient
/vwa/
imperfect voyais
/vwa.jɛ/		 voyais
/vwa.jɛ/		 voyait
/vwa.jɛ/		 voyions
/vwaj.jɔ̃/		 voyiez
/vwaj.je/		 voyaient
/vwa.jɛ/
past historic1 vis
/vi/		 vis
/vi/		 vit
/vi/		 vîmes
/vim/		 vîtes
/vit/		 virent
/viʁ/
future verrai
/vɛ.ʁe/		 verras
/vɛ.ʁa/		 verra
/vɛ.ʁa/		 verrons
/vɛ.ʁɔ̃/		 verrez
/vɛ.ʁe/		 verront
/vɛ.ʁɔ̃/
conditional verrais
/vɛ.ʁɛ/		 verrais
/vɛ.ʁɛ/		 verrait
/vɛ.ʁɛ/		 verrions
/vɛ.ʁjɔ̃/		 verriez
/vɛ.ʁje/		 verraient
/vɛ.ʁɛ/
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 voie
/vwa/		 voies
/vwa/		 voie
/vwa/		 voyions
/vwaj.jɔ̃/		 voyiez
/vwaj.je/		 voient
/vwa/
imperfect1 visse
/vis/		 visses
/vis/		 vît
/vi/		 vissions
/vi.sjɔ̃/		 vissiez
/vi.sje/		 vissent
/vis/
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 –
— vois
/vwa/		 — voyons
/vwa.jɔ̃/		 voyez
/vwa.je/		 —
1literary tenses

Derived terms

Adverb

voir

  1. (Louisiana) please (used to mark the imperative)
    Viens voir ici. - Come here please.

Further reading

Middle English

Noun

voir

  1. Alternative form of veir

Old French

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Latin vērus.

Adjective

voir m (oblique and nominative feminine singular voire)

  1. true
  2. real
  3. true; genuine
    • circa 1150, Thomas d'Angleterre, Le Roman de Tristan, page 176 (of the Champion Classiques edition, →ISBN, line 2178:
      E cele, qui est veire amie
      And she, who is a true friend

Declension

Synonyms

Noun

voir m (oblique plural voirs, nominative singular voirs, nominative plural voir)

  1. the truth

See also

References

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