Participles
| Present | ġesēonde |
| Past | ġesewen |
Indicative
Present
| 1st sing. | ġesēo |
| 2nd sing. | ġesiehst |
| 3rd sing. | ġesiehþ |
| 1st plur. | ġesēoþ |
| 2nd plur. | ġesēoþ |
| 3rd plur. | ġesēoþ |
Past
| 1st sing. | ġeseah |
| 2nd sing. | ġesāwe |
| 3rd sing. | ġeseah |
| 1st plur. | ġesāwon |
| 2nd plur. | ġesāwon |
| 3rd plur. | ġesāwon |
Subjunctive
Present
| 1st sing. | ġesēo |
| 2nd sing. | ġesēo |
| 3rd sing. | ġesēo |
| 1st plur. | ġesēon |
| 2nd plur. | ġesēon |
| 3rd plur. | ġesēon |
Past
| 1st sing. | ġesāwe |
| 2nd sing. | ġesāwe |
| 3rd sing. | ġesāwe |
| 1st plur. | ġesāwen |
| 2nd plur. | ġesāwen |
| 3rd plur. | ġesāwen |
Imperative
| Singular | ġeseoh |
| Plural | ġesēoþ |
Verbs similar to 'geseon'
beseon,
gefeon,
gesceon,
geteon,
geþeon,
aseon,
beteon,
gedon,
gefon,
gehon,
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *gasehwaną. Equivalent to ġe- + sēon. See: Proto-Germanic '
*gasehwaną'.
Sample Sentences
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...þāra þe wit ǣr ne ġesāwon. (...that we haven't seen before.) [late 9th century, Alfred the Great, Translation of Boethius' The Consolation of Philosophy:]
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On ōðre wīsan wē sċēawiaþ mētinge and on ōðre wīsan stafas. Ne gǣþ nā māre tō mētinge būtan þæt þū hit ġesēo and herie. Nis nā ġenōg þæt þū stafas sċēawiġe būtan þū hīe ēac rǣde and þæt andġiet understande. (We look at pictures in one way and letters in another. You don't do anything with a painting except see it and praise it. Looking at letters is not enough unless you also read them and understand the meaning.) [circa''' 992, Ælfric of Eynsham, Midlent Sunday:]
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Hēr man mæġ ġīet ġesēon heora swaðu, ac wē him ne cunnon æfter spyrian. (Here you can still see their footprints, but we don't know how to follow them.) [circa''' 897, Alfred the Great, Translation of Pope Gregory's Pastoral Care:]
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Lytel he wæs ðær gesewen, ac ðeah-hwæðere he wæs swiðe micel and ormæte. Lytel he wæs gesewen, forðan ðe he wolde gefeccan þa lytlan, and gebringan up to his rice. (Little he there appeared, yet was he, nevertheless, very great and infinite. Little he appeared, because he would fetch the little and bring them up to his kingdom.) [circa''' 992, Ælfric of Eynsham, “On the Purification of St. Mary”, in The Homilies of the Anglo-Saxon Church/IX:]
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Iōb cwæþ, "Ēalā ġif mīna synna and mīn iermþu þe iċ þoliġe wǣren āweġena on ānre wǣgan, þonne wǣren hīe swǣrran ġesewena þonne sandcorn on sǣ." (Job said, "If only my sins and the misery I suffer were weighed on a scale; then they would appear heavier than the sandgrains in the sea.") [circa''' 992, Ælfric of Eynsham, The First Sunday in September:]
Cognates
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