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Learn French Verbs :: Learn French Online
In all the languages that I know, I never had any issues with verbs and French is no exception. There are a few rules that do differ from English and may not be easily acceptable to your logical mind but overall its simple. I found French to be comparatively much logically designed language as compared to English. Go through the following three topics and win over French Verbs. Good luck friend!
French Verbs - L'Verbe Français
Conjugating Regular Verbs
Pronominal (Reflexive) Verbs
Etre Verbs
Avoir Verbs
Conjugating Regular Verbs In French
There are 5 main kinds of French verbs: -er, -ir, -re, stem-changing, and irregular. Once you've learned the rules of conjugation for each of the first three kinds of verbs, you should have no problem conjugating regular verbs in each of those categories.
The verb before it is conjugated is called the infinitive. Removing the last two letters leaves you with the stem (aimer is the infinitive, aim- is the stem.) The present indicative tense indicates an ongoing action, general state, or habitual activity. Besides the simple present tense (I write, I run, I see); there are two other forms of the present tense in English: the progressive (I am writing, I am running, etc.) and the emphatic (I do write, I do run, etc.) However, these three English present tenses are all translated by the present indicative tense in French.
To conjugate verbs in the present tense, use the stem and add the following endings.
| -er |
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-re |
| -e |
-ons |
-s |
-ons |
| -es |
-ez |
-s |
-ez |
| -e |
-ent |
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-ent |
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For Example
finir - to finish <- The -ir verb example
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Pronounciation |
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finis
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fee-nee
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| finit |
fee-nee |
| finissons |
fee-nee-sohn |
| finissez |
fee-nee-say |
| finissent |
fee-neess |
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