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exotic tigerBOT
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Please be patient

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glacial cradle
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être is an irregular verb after all

analog sluice
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"être" is an irregular verb, so it doesn't follow the usual pattern. For such verbs you just have to learn their various forms by heart.

mental summit
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Alright thanks all. Also, in the future is it fine I just know; “if its nous the verb usually ends with -ons” like will going from that hold me back?

glacial cradle
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In terms of conjugation, verbs are split into groups depending on the last two or three letters of their infinitives. The verbs you talked about are from the first group, ending all -er (commencer, parler, regarder). The first group are highly regular so they follow the pattern.

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That's how grammar is taught to natives but learner-orientated sources might subdivide the third group into -re and -oir + other irregulars

mental summit
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thank you

glacial cradle
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not the ending but the rest of the verb

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For example, the second group conjugation (-ir) changes the stem in the plurals by adding -ss- which you wouldn't have understood had you just gone with 'nous ends with -ons'. Example:
finir: je finis, tu finis, il/elle/on finit, nous finissons, vous finissez, ils/elles finissent
This continues to the imperfect because this tense's stem comes from the plural « nous » :
nous finissons => finiss-
je finissais, tu finissais, il/elle/on finissait, nous finissions, vous finissiez, ils/elles finissaient

mental summit
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Ah I see, thank you. Do you have tips to remember those?

glacial cradle
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getting a grip on the present is immensely important as it'll inform you for the other tenses

glacial cradle
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you can do drills if you want

mental summit
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Drills?

glacial cradle
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drills are basically exercises but a lot more focused

mental summit
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Oh ok thank you

glacial cradle
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For example, say you've just learned the first group (-er) verb conjugation's pattern

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-e, -es, -e, -ons, -ez, -ent etc

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A drill would be having a list of other first group verbs and then conjugate them

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Once you're done writing the whole thing, look up the conjugation table to see whether you got it all right, all wrong, or somewhere in between

mental summit
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Ok great