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voir

/vwaʁ/

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verb/vwaʁ/

to see (visually); to see (to understand); to see (to visit, to go and see)

Je vois ma mère là-bas.I see my mother over there.

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, Galicia

adverb/vwaʁ/

please (used to mark the imperative)

Viens voir ici.Come here please.

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, Galicia