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wicked krakenBOT
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torpid fiber
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Not all verbs that end in -ir are regular

wild arch
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I am researching ''regular'' and ''irregular verbs '' and I wanted to understand this better,since I know there are 3 main verb groups

fresh dove
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The way verbs are grouped varies

fresh dove
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For the typical learner grouping, all three endings have both regular and irregular verbs

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-er is the most regular (the only "true" -er irregular is "aller")
-ir is second most regular
-re is probably more irregular than regular

wild arch
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thanks, that helps a lot

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Im studying some common verbs like ''etre'' and I just wanted to know more about this

fresh dove
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One thing you'll notice is that the most common verbs are irregular

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Which is a bit annoying for starting out but you'll use them enough that you'll learn them quickly enough

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99% of french verbs are -er, which like I said only aller is truly irregular for -er verbs, so once you have the common ones down the rest will be pretty straightforward

subtle pier
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99% of french verbs are -er
really?

torpid fiber
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I don't think he was speaking literally, but it's not far off
I just did an analysis of this site: https://cooljugator.com/fr/list/all which has a total 30558 verbs, and you can see that it's just shy of 92% that are -er

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subtle pier
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yeah i didnt take it literally but WOW

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i would never have thought it would be such a huge majority

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might be bc there are lots of 3rd groupe verbs in most used ones