Visit – the verb “visit” refers to the action of going somewhere or to someone for some time, either for pleasure, work, or socially. As a noun, a “visit” is an act of going somewhere or visiting someone.
These two definitions of the word are used extremely often in travel, familial, and professional English.
How to Pronounce “Visit”?
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Two syllables, stress on the first: VIS–it. Both syllables contain the short /ɪ/ vowel, the same sound as in “bit,” “sit,” and “kit.” The s is a voiced /z/ sound, not a sharp /s/.
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Full Tenses of “Visit”
The verb “visit” means to go to a place or see a person for a particular purpose, such as travel, business, or social reasons. It is a regular verb, so the past tense and past participle are formed by adding -ed.
Basic Forms of the Verb “Visit”
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Form |
Structure |
Example |
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Base Form |
visit |
We
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Past Simple |
visited |
She
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Past Participle |
visited |
They have
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Gerund |
visiting |
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Third Person Singular |
visits |
He
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Continuous and Perfect Forms
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Tense |
Structure |
Example |
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Present Continuous |
am/is/are visiting |
We’re
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Past Continuous |
was/were visiting |
They
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Future Continuous |
will be visiting |
This time next week, I’ll
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Present Perfect |
have/has visited |
She
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Past Perfect |
had visited |
Before moving to Canada, he
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Future Perfect |
will have visited |
By the end of the year, we’ll
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Present Perfect Continuous |
have/has been visiting |
They
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Past Perfect Continuous |
had been visiting |
She
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Future Perfect Continuous |
will have been visiting |
By next June, he
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Collocations: Words That Pair with “Visit”
“Visit” is a word which can be used either as a verb or as a noun, each having its own typical collocations. These collocations are used by native speakers while discussing issues of traveling, health care, family, business, and everyday activities.
“Visit” as a Verb
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Phrase |
Explanation |
Example |
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go to a location |
We
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travel to a city |
She hopes to
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travel to another country |
Millions of tourists
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go to see a person |
I
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see a doctor for medical advice |
You should
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consult a specialist |
He
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access a website |
Thousands of users
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go to a tourist attraction |
We
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“Visit” as a Noun
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Phrase |
Explanation |
Example |
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go somewhere or see someone |
We
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go to a place, often formally |
She
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have someone come to see you |
The school
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be travelling somewhere temporarily |
He
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while visiting a place |
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“Visit” in Spanish, French, and German
“Visit” comes from the Latin visitare, an intensified form of visere (to go to see, to look at), itself related to videre (to see). The Latin root vis- connects “visit” to “vision,” “visible,” “visual,” and “advise” (to see toward, to counsel). The translations across European languages all share the same Latin ancestry, making them immediately recognisable.
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Language |
To Visit (verb) |
A Visit (noun) |
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visitar |
una visita |
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visiter (place) / rendre visite à (person) |
une visite |
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besuchen |
ein Besuch |
