different between voir vs regarder

French

Etymology

From Old French veoir, veir, from earlier vedeir, from Latin vid?re, present active infinitive of vide?, from Proto-Italic *wid??, 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): /vwa?/
• (Louisiana) IPA^(key): [(v)w?(?)]
• Homophone: voire
• Rhymes: -wa?

Verb

voir

1. to see (visually)

2. to see (to understand)

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

Adverb

voir

1. (Louisiana) please (used to mark the imperative)

   Viens voir ici. - Come here please.

Further reading

• “voir” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Middle English

Noun

voir

1. Alternative form of veir

Old French

Alternative forms

• veir
• vair
• ver

Etymology

From Latin v?rus.

Adjective

voir m (oblique and nominative feminine singular voire)

1. true
2. real
3. true; genuine

Declension

Synonyms

• verai

Descendants

• English: voir dire

Noun

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

1. the truth

See also

• veoir

References

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (voir)
• veir on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub

English

Etymology

regard +? -er.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -??(?)d?(?)

Noun

regarder (plural regarders)

1. (chiefly Britain, archaic) An official responsible for monitoring woodlands and forest areas and reporting to the court of regard.
2. A person who regards something or someone.

References

• Webster, Noah (1828) , “regarder”, in An American Dictionary of the English Language
• regarder in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd ed., 1989.

French

Etymology

From Middle French, from Old French reguarder, corresponding to French re- +? garder.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??.?a?.de/

Verb

regarder

1. to look at

2. to watch

3. to face
4. to concern (be associated with)

   Synonym: concerner

Conjugation

Derived terms

• regard
• regarder par le petit bout de la lorgnette
• se regarder dans le blanc des yeux
• se regarder en chiens de faïence
• se regarder le nombril
• y regarder à deux fois

Further reading

• “regarder” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Middle French

Alternative forms

• reguarder

Etymology

From Old French regarder, reguarder.

Verb

regarder

1. to look at
2. to watch

Conjugation

• Middle French conjugation varies from one text to another. Hence, the following conjugation should be considered as typical, not as exhaustive.

Descendants

• ? English: regard
• French: regarder

Old French

Verb

regarder

1. Alternative form of reguarder

Conjugation

This verb conjugates as a first-group verb ending in -er. The forms that would normally end in *-d, *-ds, *-dt are modified to t, z, t. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.