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2. French verbs - Wikipedia

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   In French, all compound tense-aspect forms are formed with an auxiliary verb (either être "to be" or avoir "to have"). Most verbs use avoir as their auxiliary verb. The exceptions are all reflexive verbs and a number of verbs of motion or change of state, including some of the most frequently used intransitive verbs of the language:

3. French verb morphology - Wikipedia

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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 ...

4. French conjugation - Wikipedia

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   The inflections of these tenses are as a regular -oir verb (that is, as an -re verb but with the vowel u /y/ in the f-forms). For example, subjunctive soyons, soyez is pronounced with the y sound of other -re and -oir verbs. In the simple present, not only are there stem changes, but the inflections are irregular as well:

5. French grammar - Wikipedia

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   For most main verbs the auxiliary is (the appropriate form of) avoir ("to have"), but for reflexive verbs and certain intransitive verbs the auxiliary is a form of être ("to be"). The participle agrees with the subject when the auxiliary is être, and with a preceding direct object (if any) when the auxiliary is avoir.

6. Passé simple - Wikipedia

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   The passé simple is most often formed by dropping the last two letters off the infinitive form of the verb and adding the appropriate ending. The three main classes of French regular verbs ( -er , -ir , -re ) are conjugated in the passé simple tense in the following way:

7. Romance verbs - Wikipedia

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   In French, the infinitives are -er, -oir, -re, -ir, but verbs with -oir and -re are in the third group, also known as irregular verbs. Latin deponent verbs like sequor and nascor (infinitive sequī , nascī ) changed to active counterparts *séquo and *násco (infinitive *séquere , *nascere ), as in Portuguese seguir , Spanish seguir , and ...