How to Conjugate Visiter (to Visit) in French

The French verb  visiter  means to visit, and its a relatively easy word to remember because it resembles its English counterpart. When you want to use it in the present, past, or future tenses, you will need to conjugate it.   How to Conjugate Visiter​ If you have studied many French verbs, youve likely come across a number that are  regular -er verbs  as this is a very common conjugation pattern.  Visiter  falls into this category, so you can apply the same endings you learned for similar verbs to this one. The first step in any verb conjugation is identifying the verb stem. In this case, that is  visit-. As you work through the conjugations, various endings will be added to indicate which tense the verb is used in. The indicative verb mood is used most often in French. You will use it for the basic conjugations of  visiter  in the present, future, and imperfect (past) tenses. All you need to do is study the chart and find the correct form that matches both the subject pronoun and the tense. For instance, I am visiting is  je visite  and we will visit is  nous visiterons. Present Future Imperfect je visite visiterai visitais tu visites visiteras visitais il visite visitera visitait nous visitons visiterons visitions vous visitez visiterez visitiez ils visitent visiteront visitaient Visiter  and the Present Participle When you add the ending -ant to the stem of visiter you form the present participle. The result is the word visitant. It can become an adjective, gerund, or noun as well as a verb depending on the context of the sentence. Visiter  in the Past Tense Another common way to form the past tense of visiter is to use the passà © composà ©. This requires a simple construction using the auxiliary verb avoir and the past participle visità ©. For example, I visited is jai visità © and we visited is nous avons visità ©. More Conjugations of  Visiter There are a few other conjugations of  visiter  that you may encounter as your French fluency increases. For instance, the subjunctive verb mood is used when the action of visiting is uncertain. Similarly, the conditional verb mood is used when the action is dependent on something else occurring. It is likely that youll only find the  passà © simple and imperfect subjunctive forms in French writing. However, its good to be able to at least recognize them. Subjunctive Conditional Pass Simple Imperfect Subjunctive je visite visiterais visitai visitasse tu visites visiterais visitas visitasses il visite visiterait visita visitt nous visitions visiterions visitmes visitassions vous visitiez visiteriez visittes visitassiez ils visitent visiteraient visitrent visitassent When you want to use  visiter  in short sentences, the  imperative verb mood can be used. For this, you do not have to include the subject pronoun. Instead of  tu visite, you can use  visite. Imperative tu visite nous visitons vous visitez