voir

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French[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Inherited from Old French veoir, veir, from earlier vedeir, from Latin vidēre, from Proto-Italic *widēō, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *weyd-. Unrelated to voie and its derivatives and to voirie or avoir.

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[edit]

Verb[edit]

voir

  1. to see (visually)
    Je vois ma mère là-bas.
    I see my mother over there.
    On ne voit pas souvent de la neige par ici.
    One doesn't often see snow around here.
  2. to see (to understand)
    • 2021, Zaz, Tout là-haut:
      (please add the primary text of this quote)
      (please add an English translation of this quote)
      (please add an English translation of this quote)
    Tu vois que tu avais tort ?
    Do you see that you were wrong?
  3. to see (to visit, to go and see)

Conjugation[edit]

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

Derived terms[edit]

Descendants[edit]

  • Saint Dominican Creole French: voir
    • Haitian Creole:

Adverb[edit]

voir

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

Further reading[edit]

Haitian Creole[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From French voir (to see). Compare Louisiana Creole oua.

Verb[edit]

voir

  1. (Saint-Domingue) to see
    Mo voir ly ahier.I saw him yesterday.

Descendants[edit]

  • Haitian Creole:

References[edit]

  • S.J Ducoeurjoly, Manuel des habitans de Saint-Domingue, contenant un précis de l'histoire de cette île

Middle English[edit]

Noun[edit]

voir

  1. Alternative form of veir

Old French[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Latin vērus.

Adjective[edit]

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[edit]

Synonyms[edit]

Descendants[edit]

Noun[edit]

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

  1. the truth

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References[edit]