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French verbs have a large number of simple (one-word) forms. These are composed of two distinct parts: the stem (or root, or radix), which indicates which verb it is, and the ending (inflection), which indicates the verb's tense (imperfect, present, future etc.) and mood and its subject's person (I, you, he/she etc.) and number, though many endings can correspond to multiple tense-mood-subject ...
This article follows the classification verb by verb of the Dictionary of the Academie Francaise [1] though better descriptions of the three group system are to be found on the site of Le Figaro, [2] in a short article published by the Academy of Montpellier [3] or on the Quebec government page [4]
Aside from être and avoir (considered categories unto themselves), French verbs are traditionally [1] grouped into three conjugation classes (groupes): . The first conjugation class consists of all verbs with infinitives ending in -er, except for the irregular verb aller and (by some accounts) the irregular verbs envoyer and renvoyer; [2] the verbs in this conjugation, which together ...
Le langage d'il y a cent ans est très différent de celui d'aujourd'hui. – "The language/usage of one hundred years ago is very different from that of today." In informal speech, il y is typically reduced to [j], as in: Y a [ja] deux bergers et quinze moutons dans le pré. Y aura [joʁa] beaucoup à manger. Y avait [javɛ] personne chez les ...
Although the word Bescherelle has the typically feminine ending -elle, it is a masculine noun in French (le Bescherelle). There are iPhone and iPad applications, e.g. Le Conjugueur (The Conjugator), [1] which contain all of the French language verbs and conjugations.
te sé l'è som sem 5: sî i è (i) enn 14: Venetian èsar: son te si el ze semo si i ze Spanish ser: soy eres es somos sois son son Galician ser: son es é somos sodes son Portuguese ser: sou és é somos sois são Sardinian èssere: so ses est semus seis sunt Friulian jessi: soi sês è sin sês son Neapolitan èssere: songo, so sî è simmo ...
This is a list of German words and expressions of French origin. Some of them were borrowed in medieval times, some were introduced by Huguenot immigrants in the 17th and 18th centuries and others have been borrowed in the 19th and 20th centuries.
French has a complex system of personal pronouns (analogous to English I, we, they, and so on). When compared to English, the particularities of French personal pronouns include: a T-V distinction in the second person singular (familiar tu vs. polite vous) the placement of object pronouns before the verb: « Agnès les voit. » ("Agnès sees ...