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[lucid latch]

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[solemn cape]

No, this is how you conjugate it

Though the stem does differ for certain verbs

In the vast majority of cases, the simple future and conditional present stems will be the infinitive

Only about 20 verbs are irregular in their stems, « acquérir (acquerr-), aller (ir-), avoir (aur-), courir (courr-), devoir (devr-), envoyer (enverr-), être (ser-), faire (fer-), falloir (faudr-), pleuvoir (pleuvr-), pouvoir (pourr-), savoir (saur-), valoir (vaudr-), venir (viendr-), voir (verr-), vouloir (voudr-) »

I should add though that the conditional endings – by design and also a bit of happenstance – are identical to the imperfect endings so while the sentence ‘adding -ais, -ait etc to the stem to make it conditional present’ is true, it’s also valid for the imperfect tense

Conditional present of parler
Je parlerais, tu parlerais, il parlerait, nous parlerions, vous parleriez, ils parleraient

Imperfect of parler
Je parlais, tu parlais, il parlait, nous parlions, vous parliez, ils parlaient

parler- vs parl-

[austere swift]

Thank you for your response!

[austere swift]

Just to clarify, you mean the stems will be the same as they are in the infinitive? Not that the verbs themselves will be left unconjugated in the infinitive?

[solemn cape]

Yes. The simple future and conditional present stems all come from the infinitive