#Help with verb form stuff please?

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heady osprey
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Bonjour, can someone please help me with this? I'm NOT looking for answers, don't worry, I'm just super confused. I'm in a French college class, first time learning it, and I literally cannot figure out the etre verb stuff. Everything else I've been ok with.. just this is confusing. one second ill see if i can senda. picture

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oh it looks like i cant send pictures er m hold onm

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well first does anyone know if i have to do anything to send pictures here?

verbal tide
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or the present tense?

barren osprey
heady osprey
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Thank you!

heady osprey
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so yeah this is probably super easy i just don't get it its like my 8th day learning

barren osprey
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don't worry, that's what the server is for

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can you detail what you'd like to have explained exactly?

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or is it just you don't know much why there are multiple forms and how to pick the right one

heady osprey
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So I'm having trouble with the etre stuff like this, I don't know how to apply it to sentences like above & just in general, and I was wondering if there was an easy way of explaining it? If I'm over complicating it/overthinking it plese let me know, but for example, the Laura one, if I look at this chart, none of that makes sense gramatically to put in the blanks. Laura she is or vous etes, I don't understand how to use these like it's asking me to when a lot of the sentence is left blank for me to fill in lol

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do you kind of get where im coming from'?

barren osprey
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"être" is the verb meaning "to be", indicating a state
In French, you can't use a verb as is in a sentence. You have to conjugate it.
what that means is that you have to use the right form, based on who is doing the action (+ how the action is occuring, but we'll ignore that for now)

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"suis" "es" "est" etc
are all various forms of "être"
it's just that you have to pick the right one based on who it's about

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if "je" (I) is doing the action, it will always be "suis"
if "tu" (you) is doing the action, it will always be "es"

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the same concept also exists in English to a lesser extent
that why you can say "I am" and "you are" but not "I are" and "you am"
even though "am" and "are" mean the same thing

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until now, is everything clear?

heady osprey
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Yes so far

barren osprey
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so now, if you were to replace Laura by one of the pronouns (I, you, she, he, we...), which one would it be?

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je, tu, elle, il, nous...

heady osprey
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elle?

barren osprey
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right, so what form of être would you use with Laura?

heady osprey
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est or es?

barren osprey
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if the sentence uses "Laura", then "est", because that's "Laura" could be replaced by "elle"

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now in your example, Laura is not part of the sentence

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in question 3, tu subject is "tu" (you)

heady osprey
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OHh okay, so es then?

barren osprey
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yes!

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it's always about matching the correct subject to the correct form (subject = who's doing the action)

heady osprey
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Since the next one has vous, would it be etes because it's plural for both guys?

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Thank you so much by the way

barren osprey
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and the verb form isn't the same whether you're using one or the other

heady osprey
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based on that, would this one ALSO be etes since there's three people?

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barren osprey
heady osprey
barren osprey
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yes! and "ils" doesn't use êtes

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nouns and names are basically always il/elle (singular) or ils/elles (plural)
because you're talking about something or someone else

heady osprey
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Did i spell it wrong? Oof

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barren osprey
# heady osprey Did i spell it wrong? Oof

"ils" should not be part of the sentence!
what I meant was you could be saying "They are students" instead of "Hugo, Philippe and Amir are students"
that's why you're using "are" in that sentence and not "am students" or "is students"

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the same thing happens in French
You could say "ils [verb] étudiants" instead of using the names, this way you can refer to your chart for the verb form

heady osprey
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Ohhhh okay i see i see