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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- Homophone: voire
- Rhymes: -waʁ
Verb
voir
- to see (visually)
- Je vois ma mère là-bas.
- I see my mother over there.
- to see (to understand)
- Tu vois que tu avais tort ?
- Do you see that you were wrong?
- 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)
infinitive | simple | voir | |||||
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compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
present participle or gerund1 | simple | voyant /vwa.jɑ̃/ | |||||
compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
past participle | vu /vy/ | ||||||
singular | plural | ||||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
(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 historic2 | vis /vi/ |
vis /vi/ |
vit /vi/ |
vîmes /vim/ |
vîtes /vit/ |
virent /viʁ/ | |
future | verrai /vɛ.ʁe/ or /ve.ʁe/ |
verras /vɛ.ʁa/ or /ve.ʁa/ |
verra /vɛ.ʁa/ or /ve.ʁa/ |
verrons /vɛ.ʁɔ̃/ or /ve.ʁɔ̃/ |
verrez /vɛ.ʁe/ or /ve.ʁe/ |
verront /vɛ.ʁɔ̃/ or /ve.ʁɔ̃/ | |
conditional | verrais /vɛ.ʁɛ/ or /ve.ʁɛ/ |
verrais /vɛ.ʁɛ/ or /ve.ʁɛ/ |
verrait /vɛ.ʁɛ/ or /ve.ʁɛ/ |
verrions /vɛ.ʁjɔ̃/ or /ve.ʁjɔ̃/ |
verriez /vɛ.ʁje/ or /ve.ʁje/ |
verraient /vɛ.ʁɛ/ or /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 | voie /vwa/ |
voies /vwa/ |
voie /vwa/ |
voyions /vwaj.jɔ̃/ |
voyiez /vwaj.je/ |
voient /vwa/ |
imperfect2 | visse /vis/ |
visses /vis/ |
vît /vi/ |
vissions /vi.sjɔ̃/ |
vissiez /vi.sje/ |
vissent /vis/ | |
(compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
imperative | – | – | – | ||||
simple | — | vois /vwa/ |
— | voyons /vwa.jɔ̃/ |
voyez /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:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). |
Derived terms
Adverb
voir
Further reading
- “voir”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Middle English
Noun
voir
- Alternative form of veir
Old French
Alternative forms
Etymology
Adjective
voir m (oblique and nominative feminine singular voire)
- true
- real
- 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
Declension of voir
Synonyms
Noun
voir oblique singular, m (oblique plural voirs, nominative singular voirs, nominative plural voir)
- the truth
See also
References
- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (voir)
- veir on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub
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