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voir.

to see (visually)

4 characters1 syllables approx.Français language

Meaning & usage

verb/vwaʁ/[(v)wɒ(ɾ)]Louisiana

  1. to see (visually)

    Je vois ma mère là-bas.
    On ne voit pas souvent de la neige par ici.

  2. to see (to understand)

    Tu vois que tu avais tort ?

  3. to see (to visit, to go and see)

Where this word comes from

Inherited from Middle French veoir, 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, véder, véser, Corsican vedè, Catalan veure. See cognates in Romance languages outside France : Aromanian ved, Galician ver, Italian vedere, Lombard vedè, véet, Portuguese ver, Romanian vedea, Sardinian bidere, Sicilian vìdiri, Spanish ver.

adv/vwaʁ/[(v)wɒ(ɾ)]Louisiana

  1. please (used to mark the imperative)

    informal
    Viens voir ici.
    Voyons voir.
Where this word comes from

Inherited from Middle French veoir, 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, véder, véser, Corsican vedè, Catalan veure. See cognates in Romance languages outside France : Aromanian ved, Galician ver, Italian vedere, Lombard vedè, véet, Portuguese ver, Romanian vedea, Sardinian bidere, Sicilian vìdiri, Spanish ver.

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