Bonjour! Do you know that all of the French verbs belong to the three conjugations? Today we are going to unmask the secret behind the conjugations!<\/p>\n
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Before discussing the conjugations, we need to understand the concept of Stem<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n In the English world, infinitive is the basic form of every verb. French has the similar system where every infinitive is followed by a suffix, either -er, -ir <\/em>or -re<\/em>.\u00a0donner<\/em> (meaning to give) is used as an example!<\/p>\n Stem<\/em><\/strong> is the root of a verb. To find out the stem<\/em><\/strong> of the infinitive, you have to cut off the suffix. For example, the steam donner<\/em> is to cut off the -er<\/em> suffix.<\/p>\n (steam)\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 + \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 (suffix)<\/p>\n donn-\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0+ \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 -er \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 = donner<\/em><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n <\/p>\n After learning how to locate the\u00a0steam<\/em>, it’s time to take a look at the three conjugations!<\/p>\n All of the French verbs are either followed by\u00a0-er, -ir <\/em>or -re<\/em> suffix, and these suffixes sharp the three conjugations segments.<\/p>\n For example, the verb of parl<\/i>er\u00a0(to speak).<\/em> It belongs to the\u00a0-er<\/em> conjugation.<\/p>\n (steam)\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 + \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 (suffix)<\/p>\n parl-\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/i>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 + \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 -er \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 =\u00a0parl<\/i>er<\/em><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n M<\/em>oudre (to grind)\u00a0<\/em>belongs to the -re\u00a0<\/em>conjugation. <\/em>Easy!<\/p>\n (steam)\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 + \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 (suffix)<\/p>\n Moud-<\/i>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 + \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 -re\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0= Moudre<\/em><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n <\/p>\n What are the stems of the following verbs? And which conjugation do they belong to?<\/p>\n (a) Aimer (b) Choisir (c) Remplir (d) Finir (e) Attendre (f) Vendre<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Answer:\u00a0(a) Aim-, -er (b) Chois-, -ir (c) Rempl-, -ir (d) Fini-, -ir (e) Attend-, -re (f) Vend-, -re<\/em><\/p>\n Written by Jason Yiu<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Bonjour! Do you know that…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":1859,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-learn-french-basic","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lingo-apps.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lingo-apps.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lingo-apps.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lingo-apps.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lingo-apps.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1856"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/lingo-apps.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1856\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2253,"href":"https:\/\/lingo-apps.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1856\/revisions\/2253"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lingo-apps.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lingo-apps.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lingo-apps.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lingo-apps.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}The Three Conjugations <\/em><\/h3>\n
Quiz time<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n