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ashen dagger
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Oh god

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There's so much lmao

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I'll just put in the first group because listing the other groups will kill my fingers

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Basically, conjugation describes how a verb changes according to person, number, and tense; there's two more (mood and voice) but these are the basics. English does the same thing, it's just invisible. The sentence, 'He holds' and 'We held' are two forms of conjugation:
–> He holds = the verb 'to hold' conjugated in the third person (he/she/it/they), singular (he/she), and present indicative
–> We held = the verb 'to hold' conjugated in the first person (I/we), plural (we), and simple past indicative
Okay, so that's the logic of conjugation. Now, how do we conjugate? Every verb in French comes with two things: a stem and a conjugation ending. Let's take three verbs: parler, finir, and rendre. The endings are generally the last two letters in a verb, so that's « -er, -ir, -re ». I say generally because the second and third groups (-ir and -re) have subpatterns. It's these endings that change, that's the key bit, and each ending has their own pattern. The easiest one is -er, whose present indicative endings are: « -e, -es, -e, -ons, -ez, -ent ».

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As an example, let's conjugate « parler » in the present indicative:
« Je parle, tu parles, il parle, nous parlons, vous parlez, ils parlent ».
As you can see, conjugation generally changes the ending according to person, number, and tense. Let's do it for each entry. Since they're all in the present indicative, I won't bother with tense information:
–> je parle = the verb « parler » conjugated in the first person (je/nous), singular (je)
–> tu parles = the verb « parler » conjugated in the second person (tu/vous), singular (tu)
–> il parle = the verb « parler » conjugated in the third person (il/elle/on/ils/elles), singular (il/elle/on)
–> nous parlons = the verb « parler » conjugated in the first person (je/nous), plural (nous)
–> vous parlez = the verb « parler » conjugated in the second person (tu/vous), plural (vous)
–> ils parlent = the verb « parler » conjugated in the third person (il/elle/on/ils/elles), plural (ils/elles)
Notice how the subject before the verb matches up with the person information? That's how you know you conjugated correctly. For example, « Il parlons » would be wrong because the subject is singular third person « il » but the verb is plural first person « parlons ».

For practice, you can try conjugating: (1) terminer in the first person singular and third person plural, (2) penser in the second person singular and the third person singular, and (3) avancer in the second person plural.
Answer keys [Do not press on the black parts].
(1) ||« je termine||, ||ils terminent »||
(2) ||« tu penses||, ||il pense »||
(3) ||« vous avancez »||

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quaint hedge
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omg

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i need a journal LOL

quaint hedge
quaint hedge
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i was a little confused😭

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i think after reading the whooooole part about conjugation it threw me off lmaooo

ashen dagger
ashen dagger
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quaint hedge
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kek i thought it was singular not plural

ashen dagger
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When you conjugate, it's these endings that change the most so if you know how the pattern works, you can apply that to other verbs

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For example, for the first group (-er ending verbs), the first person plural (nous) ends in -ons. So, if I just give you a random -er verb like « danser », you can be fairly certain that its nous conjugation is « dansons »

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danser = dans -er => dans -ons => dansons

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Of course, regularity is a major factor here. Fortunately, 95%+ of first group verbs are regular so whatever pattern you learn will apply the vaaaaaaaast majority of those verbs

quaint hedge
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dansons is like « dancing » right?

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or is it different

ashen dagger
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nous dansons = we dance / we are dancing

quaint hedge
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mhm

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so the endings of them just depend on the pronoun

ashen dagger
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the English -ing (the gerund) is translateable in various ways in French

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but no, dansons is not dancing

quaint hedge
ashen dagger
quaint hedge
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pourquoi ughhhhhhh this is a lot to learn

ashen dagger
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Don't worry just take it really slowly

quaint hedge
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right, small steps

ashen dagger
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The majority of verbs belong in the first group, and the first group is incredibly regular

quaint hedge
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okay good

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irregular verbs throw me off

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so much.

ashen dagger
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The present tense is the most 'irregular' of all the tenses

quaint hedge
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oh.

ashen dagger
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So, focus on the present tense for first group verbs

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Once you're done with that, you can move on to the present tense of the second group (-ir)

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then the third (-re)

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before tackling the irregulars (-oir)

quaint hedge
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right

ashen dagger
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I will say this

quaint hedge
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?

ashen dagger
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The present is like the key that unlocks the rest of the tense system

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Because every other tense is, in some way, related to the present tense

quaint hedge
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attquoi oh

ashen dagger
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The present is that important

quaint hedge
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yk what- spanish and their tenses seem similar to french but french is more..

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yeah

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self explanatory

ashen dagger
quaint hedge
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oh

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attquoi i didn’t know

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it just seems like in your words yk- french just has more levels

ashen dagger
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Oh not at all

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Spanish contains more tenses and is less 'regular' than French

quaint hedge
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ohhh

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i see

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ill go back to this and study the endings + pronouns

ashen dagger
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For example, Spanish has eight past tenses in the indicative mood
(Imperfect hablaba, simple past hablé, present perfect he hablado, past perfect había hablado, imperfect continuous estaba hablando, past continuous estuve hablando, present perfect continuous he estado hablando, past perfect continuous había estado hablando)

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French only has three
(Imperfect je parlais, compound past j'ai parlé, past perfect/pluperfect j'avais parlé)

quaint hedge
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oh

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only 3?

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ashen dagger
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Technically 7 in total but you don’t need two of them (unless you read fiction a lot) and another 2 are easily conjugated