voilà
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English[edit]
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voilà
Synonyms[edit]
- See Thesaurus:lo
Translations[edit]
behold!
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French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Literally, “look there”. From vois (“see!, look!”), second-person singular imperative of voir (“to see, to look”) and là (“there”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Verb[edit]
voilà (defective)
- there (it) is
- 1953, Samuel Beckett, En attendant Godot:
- Voilà l’homme tout entier, s’en prenant à sa chaussure alors que c’est son pied le coupable.
- There is man in his entirety, blaming his shoe when his foot is guilty.
- here (it) is
- Voilà le fromage.
- Here's the cheese.
- Voilà ce qu'on va faire ensuite.
- Here's what we are going to do next.
- that is
- Voilà ce que je lui ai demandé, et voici sa réponse : « ... »
- That's what I asked her and this is her answer: "..."
Usage notes[edit]
- voilà is a defective verb. Its only conjugation is in the present indicative tense, even though it can appear in phrases that imply another tense.
- It is mainly used to introduce a slightly distant person or object, in contrast to voici which is used to designate a person or object near the speaker.
- In face-to-face conversations where both participants can see the subject of the conversation, voilà often supersedes voici (thus its additional definition: Here is).
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Further reading[edit]
- “voilà”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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Italian[edit]
Interjection[edit]
voilà
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Polish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Unadapted borrowing from French voilà.
Pronunciation[edit]
Interjection[edit]
voilà
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