Visiter Conjugation in French
visiter means “visit” in English, and it is a verb French learners meet early — it sits in VerbFlow’s frequency list for French. You use it for talking about tourism, for describing a weekend trip, and for showing friends around. Because it comes up in everyday conversation so often, learning its forms properly pays off from the very first week. This page gives you the complete conjugation of visiter — every tense, every person, the gerund and the past participle — with notes, examples, common mistakes and a quiz. Here is the verb in a natural sentence: “Je visite Paris.” — “I visit Paris.”
Quick facts
- Infinitive: visiter
- English: visit
- Verb type: Regular
- Irregular in: none — it is regular in every tense
- Gerund: en visitant
- Past participle: visité
- Auxiliary: avoir (all perfect tenses are formed with avoir + the past participle)
Pronunciation
Pronunciation is not listed on this page: the verified tables do not include IPA for visiter, so no pronunciation is given rather than an invented one.
Full conjugation tables
Every form below comes from VerbFlow’s verified conjugation tables for visiter. Learn the present tense first, then the passé composé and the imperfect, and add the remaining tenses one at a time.
Present indicative
| Person | Form |
|---|---|
| je | visite |
| tu | visites |
| il/elle | visite |
| nous | visitons |
| vous | visitez |
| ils/elles | visitent |
Passé simple
| Person | Form |
|---|---|
| je | visitai |
| tu | visitas |
| il/elle | visita |
| nous | visitâmes |
| vous | visitâtes |
| ils/elles | visitèrent |
Imperfect
| Person | Form |
|---|---|
| je | visitais |
| tu | visitais |
| il/elle | visitait |
| nous | visitions |
| vous | visitiez |
| ils/elles | visitaient |
Future
| Person | Form |
|---|---|
| je | visiterai |
| tu | visiteras |
| il/elle | visitera |
| nous | visiterons |
| vous | visiterez |
| ils/elles | visiteront |
Conditional
| Person | Form |
|---|---|
| je | visiterais |
| tu | visiterais |
| il/elle | visiterait |
| nous | visiterions |
| vous | visiteriez |
| ils/elles | visiteraient |
Present subjunctive
| Person | Form |
|---|---|
| je | visite |
| tu | visites |
| il/elle | visite |
| nous | visitions |
| vous | visitiez |
| ils/elles | visitent |
Imperfect subjunctive
| Person | Form |
|---|---|
| je | visitasse |
| tu | visitasses |
| il/elle | visitât |
| nous | visitassions |
| vous | visitassiez |
| ils/elles | visitassent |
Present perfect
| Person | Form |
|---|---|
| je | ai visité |
| tu | as visité |
| il/elle | a visité |
| nous | avons visité |
| vous | avez visité |
| ils/elles | ont visité |
Pluperfect (past perfect)
| Person | Form |
|---|---|
| je | avais visité |
| tu | avais visité |
| il/elle | avait visité |
| nous | avions visité |
| vous | aviez visité |
| ils/elles | avaient visité |
Future perfect
| Person | Form |
|---|---|
| je | aurai visité |
| tu | auras visité |
| il/elle | aura visité |
| nous | aurons visité |
| vous | aurez visité |
| ils/elles | auront visité |
Conditional perfect
| Person | Form |
|---|---|
| je | aurais visité |
| tu | aurais visité |
| il/elle | aurait visité |
| nous | aurions visité |
| vous | auriez visité |
| ils/elles | auraient visité |
Imperative (affirmative)
| Person | Form |
|---|---|
| tu | visite |
| nous | visitons |
| vous | visitez |
Imperative (negative)
| Person | Form |
|---|---|
| tu | visite |
| nous | visitons |
| vous | visitez |
Gerund and past participle
| Form | French |
|---|---|
| Gerund | en visitant |
| Past participle | visité |
When to use each tense
Present indicative
The present indicative is used for habits, facts and things happening now. For example: “Je visite le musée.” — “I visit the museum.”
Passé simple
The passé simple is used for completed actions in the past, mainly in written and literary French. For example: “Je visitai le musée hier.” — “I visited the museum yesterday.”
Imperfect
The imperfect is used for ongoing or habitual actions in the past, and background description. For example: “Je visitais le musée avant.” — “I used to visit the museum before.”
Future
The future is used for what will happen, predictions and plans. For example: “Je visiterai le musée demain.” — “I will visit the museum tomorrow.”
Conditional
The conditional is used for what would happen, polite requests and hypothetical situations. For example: “Je visiterais le musée un jour.” — “I would visit the museum one day.”
Present subjunctive
The present subjunctive is used for wishes, doubts, emotions and opinions after que. For example: “Bien que je visite le musée” — “Although I visit the museum.”
Imperfect subjunctive
The imperfect subjunctive is used for the past subjunctive: wishes and hypotheticals about the past, in formal and literary French. For example: “Bien que je visitasse le musée” — “Although I visit the museum.”
Present perfect
The present perfect is used for recent past actions and life experience; this is the everyday spoken past tense, the passé composé. For example: “J'ai visité le musée cette semaine.” — “I have visited the museum this week.”
Pluperfect (past perfect)
The pluperfect (past perfect) is used for an action completed before another past action. For example: “J'avais visité le musée avant la fête.” — “I had visited the museum before the party.”
Future perfect
The future perfect is used for what will have happened by a point in the future. For example: “J'aurai visité le musée pour demain.” — “I will have visited the museum by tomorrow.”
Conditional perfect
The conditional perfect is used for what would have happened in a different past. For example: “J'aurais visité le musée hier.” — “I would have visited the museum yesterday.”
Imperative (affirmative)
The imperative (affirmative) is used for direct commands and instructions. For example: “visite le musée !” — “Visit the museum!”
Imperative (negative)
The imperative (negative) is used for prohibitions and negative commands. For example: “Ne visite pas le musée !” — “Don't visit the museum!”
Gerund and past participle
The gerund en visitant is used after en for an action in progress, and the past participle visité builds the perfect tenses with avoir. For example: “J'ai visité mes amis cette semaine.” — “I have visited my friends this week.”
Example sentences
Ten natural sentences with visiter, covering different tenses and persons. Say each one aloud, then cover the French and try to produce it from the English.
- “Je visite Paris.” — “I visit Paris.”
- “Tu visitas le musée hier.” — “You visited the museum yesterday.”
- “Il visitait mes amis avant.” — “He used to visit my friends before.”
- “Je visiterai la ville demain.” — “I will visit the town tomorrow.”
- “Tu visiterais Paris un jour.” — “You would visit Paris one day.”
- “Il a visité le musée cette semaine.” — “He has visited the museum this week.”
- “J'avais visité mes amis avant la fête.” — “I had visited my friends before the party.”
- “Tu auras visité la ville pour demain.” — “You will have visited the town by tomorrow.”
- “Bien que il visite Paris” — “Although he visits Paris.”
- “visite le musée !” — “Visit the museum!”
Common mistakes
1. Using the infinitive instead of a conjugated form
✗ Wrong: “Je visiter Paris.”
✓ Right: “Je visite Paris.”
The infinitive visiter never takes a subject. After je you need the conjugated present form visite.
2. Using the wrong person
✗ Wrong: “Je visitons le musée.”
✓ Right: “Je visite le musée.”
visitons is the nous form. With je the present form is visite — check the person in the table before you speak.
3. Using the present for a finished past action
✗ Wrong: “Hier, je visite Paris.”
✓ Right: “Hier, j'ai visité Paris.”
The present visite describes now. For something finished yesterday, use the passé composé ai visité.
4. Using the passé simple in everyday speech
✗ Wrong: “Hier, je visitai mes amis.” (in casual conversation)
✓ Right: “Hier, j'ai visité mes amis.”
The passé simple visitai belongs in novels and formal writing. In everyday speech, say the passé composé ai visité.
5. Using the indicative after a subjunctive trigger
✗ Wrong: “Bien que je visite Paris.”
✓ Right: “Bien que je visite Paris.”
After bien que French needs the subjunctive, so use visite here, not the indicative visite.
6. Using the imperfect for a single finished action
✗ Wrong: “Je visitais la ville avant.” (said of one finished moment)
✓ Right: “J'ai visité la ville avant.”
The imperfect visitais describes something ongoing or repeated in the past. For one finished action, use the passé composé ai visité.
Quiz: test yourself
Ten questions on visiter. Choose the right form, then check the answer key below.
What is the je form of visiter in the Present indicative?
- A) visitons
- B) visitent
- C) visite
- D) visitez
What is the il/elle form of visiter in the Passé simple?
- A) visita
- B) visitai
- C) visitâtes
- D) visitâmes
What is the nous form of visiter in the Imperfect?
- A) visitiez
- B) visitait
- C) visitais
- D) visitions
What is the tu form of visiter in the Future?
- A) visiteras
- B) visiterons
- C) visiterai
- D) visiteront
What is the je form of visiter in the Conditional?
- A) visiteraient
- B) visiterais
- C) visiterait
- D) visiterions
What is the il/elle form of visiter in the Present subjunctive?
- A) visitions
- B) visitiez
- C) visite
- D) visitent
What is the je form of visiter in the Imperfect subjunctive?
- A) visitassent
- B) visitassions
- C) visitasse
- D) visitasses
What is the gerund of visiter?
- A) dormant
- B) buvant
- C) visitant
What is the past participle of visiter?
- A) bu
- B) visité
- C) dormi
What does visiter mean in English?
- A) visit
- B) sleep
- C) drink
- D) open
Answer key
- C) visite — The je form of visiter in the present indicative is visite.
- A) visita — The il/elle form of visiter in the passé simple is visita.
- D) visitions — The nous form of visiter in the imperfect is visitions.
- A) visiteras — The tu form of visiter in the future is visiteras.
- B) visiterais — The je form of visiter in the conditional is visiterais.
- C) visite — The il/elle form of visiter in the present subjunctive is visite.
- C) visitasse — The je form of visiter in the imperfect subjunctive is visitasse.
- C) visitant — The gerund of visiter is en visitant; it is used after en for actions in progress.
- B) visité — The past participle of visiter is visité; perfect tenses use avoir + visité.
- A) visit — visiter means “visit” in English.
Frequently asked questions
What does visiter mean in English?
visiter means “visit”. You use it for talking about tourism, for describing a weekend trip, and for showing friends around. It is a core everyday verb, so its present-tense forms are worth learning first.
Is visiter regular or irregular?
visiter is regular, and it is irregular in these tenses: none — it is regular in every tense. The gerund is en visitant and the past participle is visité.
What are the gerund and past participle of visiter?
The gerund is en visitant — use it after en for actions in progress. The past participle is visité — use it with avoir for the perfect tenses, as in ai visité.
How do I say “I visit” in French?
Say “Je visite Paris.” — “I visit Paris.” The je form of the present is visite, and it is the form you will use most often.
What is the difference between visiter and voyager?
visiter means “visit” while voyager means “travel” — they describe different actions, so they are not interchangeable. Compare the full table for voyager and check the meaning in context before you choose.
Related pages
- Visiter Present Tense Conjugation in French
- Visiter Examples, Sentences & Quiz in French
- Voyager conjugation
- Regarder conjugation
- Habiter conjugation
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