To visit in French 🇫🇷

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Looks like English visit and that’s what it means

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visiter info.

Tips to remember the French word ‘visiter’: Think of a tour guide saying, “We will visit the city,” and imagine the word ‘VISIT’ with an ‘er’ at the end, mimicking common French infinitive verb endings.

Explanations: ‘Visiter’ is a French verb that translates directly to ‘to visit’ in English. It’s a regular verb from the first group of verbs in French, which means it follows a regular conjugation pattern just like ‘aimer’ (to love), ‘parler’ (to speak), etc.

Other words that mean the same thing include ‘aller voir’ (to go see), or in a more formal context, you might also come across ‘rendre visite à’ which is used specifically when visiting people (e.g., ‘Je vais rendre visite à mes grands-parents’ – ‘I am going to visit my grandparents’).

Since ‘visiter’ is an infinitive verb, here are its conjugations in various tenses:

**Present:**
– je visite (I visit)
– tu visites (you visit)
– il/elle/on visite (he/she/one visits)
– nous visitons (we visit)
– vous visitez (you visit [formal/plural])
– ils/elles visitent (they visit)

**Past (Passé Composé):**
– j’ai visité (I visited)
– tu as visité (you visited)
– il/elle/on a visité (he/she/one visited)
– nous avons visité (we visited)
– vous avez visité (you visited)
– ils/elles ont visité (they visited)

**Imperfect:**
– je visitais (I was visiting)
– tu visitais (you were visiting)
– il/elle/on visitait (he/she/one was visiting)
– nous visitions (we were visiting)
– vous visitiez (you were visiting)
– ils/elles visitaient (they were visiting)

**Future Simple:**
– je visiterai (I will visit)
– tu visiteras (you will visit)
– il/elle/on visitera (he/she/one will visit)
– nous visiterons (we will visit)
– vous visiterez (you will visit)
– ils/elles visiteront (they will visit)

Examples of sentences using ‘visiter’:
1. Nous allons visiter le musée demain. (We are going to visit the museum tomorrow.)
2. Ils ont visité Paris l’été dernier. (They visited Paris last summer.)
3. Elle visiterait la galerie d’art si elle avait le temps. (She would visit the art gallery if she had the time.)
4. Visitez-vous souvent les monuments historiques ? (Do you often visit historical monuments?)
5. Quand nous serons à Rome, nous visiterons le Colisée. (When we are in Rome, we will visit the Colosseum.)

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