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Visiter
Vis′it-er
,Noun.
A visitor.
Definition 2024
visiter
visiter
See also: vîsiter
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin vīsitāre, present active infinitive of vīsitō (“I see, I visit”). Compare the popular form in Old French, visder.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /vizite/
Verb
visiter
- to visit (a place)
- Tu dois visiter Paris un jour.
- You must visit Paris one day
- Tu dois visiter Paris un jour.
Usage notes
Visiter is only used for places. In French they say "rendre visite à" for people, i.e. "Je rends visite à mon père à Paris. = I'm visiting my father in Paris.
Conjugation
Conjugation of visiter (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
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| infinitive | visiter | avoir visité | |||||
| gerund | en visitant | en ayant visité | |||||
| present participle | visitant /vi.zi.tɑ̃/ |
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| past participle | visité /vi.zi.te/ |
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| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il | nous | vous | ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | visite /vi.zit/ |
visites /vi.zit/ |
visite /vi.zit/ |
visitons /vi.zi.tɔ̃/ |
visitez /vi.zi.te/ |
visitent /vi.zit/ |
| imperfect | visitais /vi.zi.tɛ/ |
visitais /vi.zi.tɛ/ |
visitait /vi.zi.tɛ/ |
visitions /vi.zi.tjɔ̃/ |
visitiez /vi.zi.tje/ |
visitaient /vi.zi.tɛ/ |
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| past historic1 | visitai /vi.zi.te/ |
visitas /vi.zi.ta/ |
visita /vi.zi.ta/ |
visitâmes /vi.zi.tam/ |
visitâtes /vi.zi.tat/ |
visitèrent /vi.zi.tɛʁ/ |
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| future | visiterai /vi.zi.tʁe/ |
visiteras /vi.zi.tʁa/ |
visitera /vi.zi.tʁa/ |
visiterons /vi.zi.tʁɔ̃/ |
visiterez /vi.zi.tʁe/ |
visiteront /vi.zi.tʁɔ̃/ |
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| conditional | visiterais /vi.zi.tʁɛ/ |
visiterais /vi.zi.tʁɛ/ |
visiterait /vi.zi.tʁɛ/ |
visiterions /vi.zi.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
visiteriez /vi.zi.tə.ʁje/ |
visiteraient /vi.zi.tʁɛ/ |
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| compound tenses |
present perfect | Use the present tense of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | Use the imperfect tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| past anterior1 | Use the past historic tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| future perfect | Use the future tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| conditional perfect | Use the conditional tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il | que nous | que vous | qu’ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | visite /vi.zit/ |
visites /vi.zit/ |
visite /vi.zit/ |
visitions /vi.zi.tjɔ̃/ |
visitiez /vi.zi.tje/ |
visitent /vi.zit/ |
| imperfect1 |
visitasse /vi.zi.tas/ |
visitasses /vi.zi.tas/ |
visitât /vi.zi.ta/ |
visitassions /vi.zi.ta.sjɔ̃/ |
visitassiez /vi.zi.ta.sje/ |
visitassent /vi.zi.tas/ |
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| compound tenses |
past | Use the present subjunctive tense of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect1 | Use the imperfect subjunctive tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | tu | – | nous | vous | – | |
| — | visite /vi.zit/ |
— | visitons /vi.zi.tɔ̃/ |
visitez /vi.zi.te/ |
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| 1literary tenses | |||||||
Related terms
Middle French
Verb
visiter
- to visit (a person or a place)
Conjugation
- Middle French conjugation varies from one text to another. Hence, the following conjugation should be considered as typical, not as exhaustive.
Conjugation of visiter
| simple | compound | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| infinitive | visiter | avoir visité | |||||
| gerund | en visitant | Use the gerund of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| present participle | visitant | ||||||
| past participle | visité | ||||||
| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | ie (may be i' before a vowel) | tu | il | nous | vous | ilz, elles | |
| simple tenses |
present | visite | visites | visite | visitons | visitez | visitent |
| imperfect | visitois, visitoys | visitois, visitoys | visitoit, visitoyt | visitions, visityons | visitiez, visityez | visitoient, visitoyent | |
| past historic | visita | visitas | visita | visitasmes | visitastes | visiterent | |
| future | visiterai, visiteray | visiteras | visitera | visiterons | visiterez | visiteront | |
| conditional | visiterois, visiteroys | visiterois, visiteroys | visiteroit, visiteroyt | visiterions, visiteryons | visiteriez, visiteryez | visiteroient, visiteroyent | |
| compound tenses |
present perfect | Use the present tense of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | Use the imperfect tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| past anterior | Use the past historic tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| future perfect | Use the future tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| conditional perfect | Use the conditional tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| subjunctive | que ie | que tu | qu'il | que nous | que vous | qu'ilz, qu'elles | |
| simple tenses |
present | visite | visites | visite | visitons | visitez | visitent |
| imperfect | visitasse | visitasses | visitast | visitassions | visitassiez | visitassent | |
| compound tenses |
past | Use the present subjunctive of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | Use the imperfect subjunctive of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | tu | – | nous | vous | – | |
| — | visite | — | visitons | visitez | — | ||