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voir
voir
French
Verb
voir
- to see (visually)
- Je vois ma mère là-bas.
- I see my mother over there.
- Je vois ma mère là-bas.
- to see (to understand)
- Tu vois que tu avais tort ?
- Do you see that you were wrong?
- Tu vois que tu avais tort ?
- to see (to visit, to go and see)
Adverb
voir
- (Louisiana) please (used to mark the imperative)
- Viens voir ici. - Come here please.
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)
| simple | compound | ||||||
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| infinitive | voir | avoir vu | |||||
| gerund | en voyant | en ayant vu | |||||
| present participle | voyant /vwa.jɑ̃/ |
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| past participle | vu /vy/ |
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| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il | nous | vous | ils | |
| 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/ |
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| past historic1 | vis /vi/ |
vis /vi/ |
vit /vi/ |
vîmes /vim/ |
vîtes /vit/ |
virent /viʁ/ |
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| future | verrai /vɛ.ʁe/ |
verras /vɛ.ʁa/ |
verra /vɛ.ʁa/ |
verrons /vɛ.ʁɔ̃/ |
verrez /vɛ.ʁe/ |
verront /vɛ.ʁɔ̃/ |
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| conditional | verrais /vɛ.ʁɛ/ |
verrais /vɛ.ʁɛ/ |
verrait /vɛ.ʁɛ/ |
verrions /vɛ.ʁjɔ̃/ |
verriez /vɛ.ʁje/ |
verraient /vɛ.ʁɛ/ |
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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 | voie /vwa/ |
voies /vwa/ |
voie /vwa/ |
voyions /vwaj.jɔ̃/ |
voyiez /vwaj.je/ |
voient /vwa/ |
| imperfect1 |
visse /vis/ |
visses /vis/ |
vît /vi/ |
vissions /vi.sjɔ̃/ |
vissiez /vi.sje/ |
vissent /vis/ |
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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 | – | |
| — | vois /vwa/ |
— | voyons /vwa.jɔ̃/ |
voyez /vwa.je/ |
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| 1literary tenses | |||||||
Derived terms
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 2-7453-0520-4), line 2178:
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E cele, qui est veire amie
- And she, who is a true friend
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E cele, qui est veire amie
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Declension
Declension of voir
Synonyms
Noun
voir m (oblique plural voirs, nominative singular voirs, nominative plural voir)
- the truth
References
- (fr) 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