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)
present participle voyant
/vwa.jɑ̃/
past participle vu
/vy/
infinitive
simple voir
compound avoir + past participle
gerund1
simple voyant
/vwa.jɑ̃/
compound ayant + past participle
singular plural
first second third first second third
indicative je (j’) tu il, elle 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/		 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 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 – tu – nous vous –
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 Only usable with preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, the past historic, past anterior, imperfect subjunctive and pluperfect subjunctive tenses may be found to have been replaced with the indicative present perfect, indicative pluperfect, present subjunctive and past subjunctive tenses respectively (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

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
Declension of voir
Number Case Masculine Feminine Neuter
Singular Subject voirs voire voir
Oblique voir voire voir
Plural Subject voir voires voir
Oblique voirs voires voir

Synonyms

Noun

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

  1. the truth

See also

References
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