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Video, videre, vidi, visum is a second conjugation verb, and its four principal parts are the ones to say out loud until they stick, because the perfect vidi and the supine visum look nothing like the present.

The passive is where the real lesson is. Videor almost never means "I am seen". It means "I seem", and impersonally videtur means "it seems" or, in the language of decrees, "it is resolved". The person to whom something seems goes in the DATIVE: mihi videtur, "it seems to me, I think". A learner who reads every videtur as "is seen" will misread a large fraction of Latin philosophy, where the word is doing the work of "appears to be the case".

In the imperative, vide plus ne is a soft warning, "mind you do not", and vide ut is "see that you do". The perfect vidi is the middle third of Caesar's veni, vidi, vici. The stem gives vision, evidence, provide, revise, prudent (from providens) and, from the supine, visa and visit.