#LE PRÉSENT DE L’INDICATIF

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LE PRÉSENT DE L’INDICATIF

open gale
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what do you have trouble with?

weary quiver
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the irregular verbs

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I can't seem to find a good list of them

weary quiver
open gale
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okay, let's set the stage
what do you consider to be a regular verb?

weary quiver
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like the regular er ir and re ones

open gale
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okay

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so that's right,
most -er verbs are regular, the main exception being "aller"
and a ton of -ir verbs have a regular conjugation as well

-re verbs are a bit tricky. For the most part, they follow specific patterns, and there are about 8 to 10 main patterns for them to follow.
The regular -re conjugation is just the most common pattern (attendre, perdre...)

weary quiver
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i struggle with re most

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mostly with etre

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cause it can be so many things

open gale
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As I said, -re verbs barely have a regular conjugation. They can a lot of various patterns, it's natural to struggle with them a bit.

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Also, even past that, the most common verbs in French tend to be very irregular, and you just have to learn them

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I can give you a list of the most important irregular verbs:

  • être
  • avoir
  • aller
  • faire
  • voir
  • pouvoir
  • devoir
  • savoir
  • vouloir
  • dire
  • venir
  • falloir
weary quiver
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weary quiver
weary quiver
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@open gale

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another question whats the difference between passe compose and imparfect

open gale
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they're the two most used tenses when it comes to indicate past actions, but they're use cases are different

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passé composé is used for events that happened at a specific point in time in your narration. Those events happened and have been completed. Nothing of note (in your narration) happened during this event.

imperfect is used for elongated events and states. You're setting the stage for something happening during that event, or this a ongoing action at a specific time in the past. It's also used for recurring events and habits, because they're over a large period of time.

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note that passé composé can describe actions that took a lot of time. It's just that what happened during the action is not important to your narration, what matters is a before/after