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.
voir
Verbs derived from voir form their future and conditional forms using the root verr- instead of the vr- or voir- of other verbs.
| infinitive | simple | voir | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 , Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
voir
From French voir (“to see”). Compare Louisiana Creole oua.
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voir m (oblique and nominative feminine singular voire)
voir oblique singular, m (oblique plural voirs, nominative singular voirs, nominative plural voir)