Present Participle Conjugations
The vast majority of French verbs use the nous form of the present tense as the root of their present participles: just drop -ons and add -ant. conjugation lessons
French Verb Conjugation Lessons
Leçons sur la conjugaison des verbes français
Learn how to conjugate French verbs, whether regular or irregular, in every tense and mood.
The vast majority of French verbs use the nous form of the present tense as the root of their present participles: just drop -ons and add -ant. Pronominal Verbs
The grammatical term "pronominal" means "relating to a pronoun." You know that conjugated verbs (almost) always need a subject pronoun, but pronominal verbs need a reflexive pronoun as well. A2 - Low-Intermediate French • conjugation lessons • tenses moods voices
Regular -er Verbs
There are several thousand verbs that end in -er, the largest category of regular French verbs. To conjugate them, remove the infinitive ending and then add the appropriate -er verb ending. A1 - Beginning French • conjugation lessons • lesson plans
Regular -ier Verbs
French verbs that end in -ier are regular -er verbs, but that -i- in front of the infinitive ending can be a little confusing, so here's a closer look. A1 - Beginning French • conjugation lessons
Regular -ir Verbs
There are several hundred regular French verbs that end in -ir. To conjugate them, remove the infinitive ending and then add the appropriate verb ending. A1 - Beginning French • conjugation lessons
Regular -re Verbs
There are several dozen regular French verbs that end in -re. To conjugate them, remove the infinitive ending and then add the appropriate verb ending. A1 - Beginning French • conjugation lessons
Simple and Compound Tenses and Moods: Avoir Verbs
Learn how each simple conjugation of avoir serves as the auxiliary verb for a corresponding compound verb form. B2 - Upper-Intermediate French • conjugation lessons • tenses moods voices • verbs
Spelling Change Verbs -cer -ger
French verbs that end in -cer or -ger require a small spelling change in certain conjugations. For the most part, these verbs are conjugated just like regular -er verbs, other than a little problem in some conjugations that must be corrected for reasons of pronunciation. It's easy enough to do, once you understand why and how. A1 - Beginning French • conjugation lessons • spelling
Stem-Changing Verbs -e_er -é_er -yer
Stem-changing verbs, also known as "shoe verbs" or "boot verbs," take the same conjugation endings as regular -er verbs, but have two different verb stems depending on the grammatical person the verb is conjugated for. A1 - Beginning French • conjugation lessons • spelling
Subjunctive Conjugations
To make up for the difficulty in knowing when to use the French subjunctive, the conjugations are relatively easy. Subjunctive: Irregular Conjugations
The French subjunctive conjugations for many otherwise irregular verbs are regular, but not all. Stem-changing verbs and what I like to call very irregular verbs have irregular subjunctive conjugations. Tu Imperative
The majority of imperative conjugations are identical to their present tense conjugations - the only difference is that there's no subject pronoun. The exception is the tu form of some verbs, in some constructions. conjugation lessons • pronouns
Variable Auxiliary Verbs
About two dozen intransitive French verbs require être as their auxiliary in the compound tenses and moods. Of these, eight can be used transitively, and when they are, two things happen. B1 - Intermediate French • conjugation lessons • quick tips
Verb Misconjugation
In verb tables, the subject is conveniently placed right in front of the verb, which makes figuring out the correct conjugation very straightforward. But it doesn't take long to discover that other words sometimes come between them and sometimes lead to misconjugation. 
Unlike other French suffixes, -ci does not create new words, but rather adds additional meaning to the nouns and pronouns it's attached to.
