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[granite prism]

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[frosty sparrow]

if i understood that right, look up indirect transitive verbs

liste de verbes transitifs indirects

[cedar raptor]

You understood it correctly, but is there a famous list that French students use to get used to the prepositions? Like, to know that you "as besoin DE qlqc", you "parle DE..."

[mental knoll]

https://www.lawlessfrench.com/grammar/verbs-with-prepositions/

You can also buy (or borrow from a library if available) a book for this, there are a few choices

[lyric crest]

I don’t think there’s an ‘ultimate list’ since prepositions are an innate trait of a verb and there’s simply too many indirect verbs to keep track

Plus, a verb may have different prepositions depending on prefixes like « se fier à / se méfier de » or even take both an indirect and direct object like « envoyer qqch à qqn »

At least when it comes to verbs that take a different auxiliary verb like partir, aller, etc., there’s not a lot of them so you can make some lists out of them