Freanch Verbs Introduction

Verbs

Verbs in French is where it gets a bit tricky. However, most of them follow a similar formular. As an introduction, we will look a verb conjuagation.

If you recall subject pronuouns:

Verb conjugation makes use of these pronouns

The Formula :

The formula is better explained with an example. Let's take the verb parler - to speak

1. Remove the ending (er for parler)
2. Add ending relating to subject pronoun

For parler the ending would be -e, -es, -e, -ons , -ez and -ent respectively

• je parle
• tu parles
• il parle
• elle parle
• nous parlons
• vous parlez
• ils parlent
• elles parlent

Three Main Groups of Verbs

The next thing to remember is the 3 main groupes of verbes - groupes based on their endigs: -er, -ir, -re.

Their endings will guide most of the conjugation you will do in French. We have looked at the endings for -er verbs. The other ones are:

• -IR: -is, -is, -it, -issons, -issez, -issent
• -RE: -s, -s, _, -ons, -ez, -ent