voir

French

Etymology

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.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /vwaʁ/
  • (file)
  • (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.
    On ne voit pas souvent de la neige par ici.
    One doesn't often see snow around here.
    • 1864, Jules Verne, Voyage au centre de la Terre, sourced from :
      Mais non, Axel, nous retrouverions au moins nos propres traces, et je ne vois rien...
      No, Axel, we should at least find our own traces and I see nothing--
  2. to see (to understand)
    Tu vois que tu avais tort ?
    Do you see that you were wrong?
    • 2021, Zaz, Tout là-haut:
      Si on s’en allait tout là-haut, si on prenait de la hauteur, tu verrais que le monde est beau, beau.
      If we went all the way up there, if we got higher, you would see that the world is beautiful, beautiful.
  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.

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Saint Dominican Creole French: voir
    • Haitian Creole:

Adverb

voir

  1. (Louisiana) please (used to mark the imperative)
    Viens voir ici.Come here please.

Further reading

Haitian Creole

Etymology

From French voir (to see). Compare Louisiana Creole oua.

Verb

voir

  1. (Saint-Domingue) to see
    Mo voir ly ahier.I saw him yesterday.

Descendants

  • Haitian Creole:

References

  • S.J Ducoeurjoly, Manuel des habitans de Saint-Domingue, contenant un précis de l'histoire de cette île

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
    • c. 1150, Thomas d'Angleterre, Le Roman de Tristan, Champion Classiques edition, →ISBN, page 176, line 2178:
      E cele, qui est veire amie
      And she, who is a true friend

Declension

Synonyms

Descendants

Noun

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

  1. the truth

See also

References

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