entrevoir

French

Etymology

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *intervidēre.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɑ̃.tʁə.vwaʁ/

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• Rhymes: -waʁ

Verb

entrevoir

1. to make out, see vaguely; to glimpse
2. to foresee, anticipate
3. to catch sight of, see briefly

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 entrevoir (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	entrevoir
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	entrevoyant /ɑ̃.tʁə.vwa.jɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		entrevu /ɑ̃.tʁə.vy/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	entrevois /ɑ̃.tʁə.vwa/	entrevois /ɑ̃.tʁə.vwa/	entrevoit /ɑ̃.tʁə.vwa/	entrevoyons /ɑ̃.tʁə.vwa.jɔ̃/	entrevoyez /ɑ̃.tʁə.vwa.je/	entrevoient /ɑ̃.tʁə.vwa/
	imperfect	entrevoyais /ɑ̃.tʁə.vwa.jɛ/	entrevoyais /ɑ̃.tʁə.vwa.jɛ/	entrevoyait /ɑ̃.tʁə.vwa.jɛ/	entrevoyions /ɑ̃.tʁə.vwaj.jɔ̃/	entrevoyiez /ɑ̃.tʁə.vwaj.je/	entrevoyaient /ɑ̃.tʁə.vwa.jɛ/
	past historic2	entrevis /ɑ̃.tʁə.vi/	entrevis /ɑ̃.tʁə.vi/	entrevit /ɑ̃.tʁə.vi/	entrevîmes /ɑ̃.tʁə.vim/	entrevîtes /ɑ̃.tʁə.vit/	entrevirent /ɑ̃.tʁə.viʁ/
	future	entreverrai /ɑ̃.tʁə.vɛ.ʁe/ or /ɑ̃.tʁə.ve.ʁe/	entreverras /ɑ̃.tʁə.vɛ.ʁa/ or /ɑ̃.tʁə.ve.ʁa/	entreverra /ɑ̃.tʁə.vɛ.ʁa/ or /ɑ̃.tʁə.ve.ʁa/	entreverrons /ɑ̃.tʁə.vɛ.ʁɔ̃/ or /ɑ̃.tʁə.ve.ʁɔ̃/	entreverrez /ɑ̃.tʁə.vɛ.ʁe/ or /ɑ̃.tʁə.ve.ʁe/	entreverront /ɑ̃.tʁə.vɛ.ʁɔ̃/ or /ɑ̃.tʁə.ve.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	entreverrais /ɑ̃.tʁə.vɛ.ʁɛ/ or /ɑ̃.tʁə.ve.ʁɛ/	entreverrais /ɑ̃.tʁə.vɛ.ʁɛ/ or /ɑ̃.tʁə.ve.ʁɛ/	entreverrait /ɑ̃.tʁə.vɛ.ʁɛ/ or /ɑ̃.tʁə.ve.ʁɛ/	entreverrions /ɑ̃.tʁə.vɛ.ʁjɔ̃/ or /ɑ̃.tʁə.ve.ʁjɔ̃/	entreverriez /ɑ̃.tʁə.vɛ.ʁje/ or /ɑ̃.tʁə.ve.ʁje/	entreverraient /ɑ̃.tʁə.vɛ.ʁɛ/ or /ɑ̃.tʁə.ve.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	entrevoie /ɑ̃.tʁə.vwa/	entrevoies /ɑ̃.tʁə.vwa/	entrevoie /ɑ̃.tʁə.vwa/	entrevoyions /ɑ̃.tʁə.vwaj.jɔ̃/	entrevoyiez /ɑ̃.tʁə.vwaj.je/	entrevoient /ɑ̃.tʁə.vwa/
	imperfect2	entrevisse /ɑ̃.tʁə.vis/	entrevisses /ɑ̃.tʁə.vis/	entrevît /ɑ̃.tʁə.vi/	entrevissions /ɑ̃.tʁə.vi.sjɔ̃/	entrevissiez /ɑ̃.tʁə.vi.sje/	entrevissent /ɑ̃.tʁə.vis/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	entrevois /ɑ̃.tʁə.vwa/	—	entrevoyons /ɑ̃.tʁə.vwa.jɔ̃/	entrevoyez /ɑ̃.tʁə.vwa.je/	—
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).

Synonyms

• (catch sight of, glimpse): apercevoir

Further reading

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