In French, savoir mean “to know” in the context of topics which are factually known. The verb devoir translates to both “must” and “to have to”. In the passé composé, aller uses the verb etre (to be) as an auxiliary verb. The verb faire translate to “to make” and “to do” and is used in a very wide variety of expressions. Avoir – to haveĪvoir mean to have and is also one of the most commonly used French verbs. Être means “to be” and is the single most commonly used verb in the French language. This page explores verbs with stem changes in detail. There are also verbs with accent changes. The verbs payer (to pay) and essayer (to try) fall into this category. For example, for -er verbs ending in -yer in the infinitive form, the -y becomes in -i in the present tense conjugation. For most verbs, we’ve included links to pages covering conjugation charts with more extensive verb tenses and example sentences.įrench has a number of -er verbs with stem changes. The purpose of this page is to present the irregular verbs simply and comprehensively. This page on our site covers the imperfect tense in detail. The French use the imperfect tense to express past actions which occurred at unspecified times. The passé composé is used for past actions which occurred at specified times.Īnother commonly used French past tense is the imparfait (imperfect). French has several commonly used past tenses. On this page we’ve included the passé composé as the past tense. The page on our site covers the personal pronoun on.
On the il, elle (he, she) lines in the conjugations below we’ve left out the personal pronoun on, which can mean “we” or “people” in general. Vous is you in the formal and plural form. Tu is you in the singular and familiar form. This page uses two ways of saying “you” in French: tu and vous. The verbs which we’ve included on this page are the irregular verbs found on the “Essential 55 verb list” in the book Barron’s 501 French Verbs. This page on our site covers French regular verbs in detail. There are three major groups of regular verbs in French: -er, -re and -ir. The most common French irregular verbs are:Ī verb is classified as “irregular” when its endings when conjugated in the present tense are different than other regular verbs in that group. What are the most common French irregular verbs? This page explores French irregular verbs in detail. Irregular verbs, however, follow nonuniform conjugation patterns. Regular verbs follow set patterns for their conjugations. In general, there are two kinds of verbs: regular and irregular. When learning French you’ll be faced with the challenge of learning verbs.
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