veure

Veure is a Catalan verb meaning to see or to watch. It covers both literal sight and broader perception, including noticing or understanding. The verb is widely used in everyday speech and governs transitive constructions with objects, for example to talk about watching a film or looking at something. It also appears in figurative expressions related to perception or awareness.

Conjugation and forms. The present indicative forms are veig, veus, veu, veiem, veieu, veuen, with jo veig and vosaltres veieu showing the irregular stem changes in the first and second-person forms. Other tenses follow typical Catalan patterns, but the verb exhibits irregularities in the present tense. The imperfect are veia, veies, veia, veiem, veieu, veien. The preterite can be formed as vaig veure, vas veure, va veure, vam veure, vau veure, van veure. The perfect tenses use the auxiliary haver with the past participle vist, as in he vist, has vist, ha vist. The present participle is veient.

Etymology and cognates. Veure derives from the Latin videre, related to verbs in other Romance languages such as Spanish ver, French voir, Italian vedere, and Portuguese ver. This shared origin is reflected in similar meanings across these languages and in related verb families that express sight and perception.

Usage notes. Veure appears in both literal and figurative contexts, and it forms part of common phrases for looking, watching, and perceiving. In Catalan, the related participle vist is used to form perfect tenses, while veient functions as the present participle for progressive notions.