Français: Sujet Deux
Regular Verb Conjugations
As with many other languages similar to French - Italian, Portuguese, Spanish etc. - verbs conjugate. What conjugation means is that the verb chances depending on what the subject of the verb is (I, You, He, She, It, Bob, The car etc.). Ours do not change as much as the French verbs - I go, He goes.
All verbs in French conjugate, regardless. There are two groups, regular and irregular. Regular verbs follow the following rules and irregular are the most common verbs that do not follow the rules of conjugation. There are another three groups and these correspond to the verb's ending. Usually if a word ends in -ER, -IR or -RE, it is a verb but there are some exceptions - autre, janvier. I am going to show you how you conjugate the present, the future and the perfect tenses. These are the most commonly used tenses in French.
One you have a regular verb, you take it's stem, in this case we will use parler as the verb and parl- is it's stem. This is what you do to it.
Regular Verb -ER
Infinitive: parler
to speak
I speak : Je parle
You speak : Tu parles
He speaks : Il parle
She speaks : Elle parle
We speak : On parle
We speak : Nous parlons
You speak : Vous parlez
They speak : Ils parlent
They speak : Elles parlent
I spoke : J'ai parlé
You spoke : Tu as parlé
He spoke : Il a parlé
She spoke : Elle a parlé
We spoke : On a parlé
We spoke : Nous avons parlé
You spoke : Vous avez parlé
They spoke : Ils ont parlé
They spoke : Elles ont parlé
I will speak : Je parlerai
You will speak : Tu parleras
He will speak : Il parlera
She will speak : Elle parlera
We will speak : On parlera
We will speak : Nous parlerons
You will speak : Vous parlerez
They will speak : Ils parleront
They will speak : Elles parleront
Informations on the tenses:
Present Tense: The present tense is the action you are doing right now such as "I am walking, I go". In French there is no direct translation for "I am walking, I am speaking", so they just use the present tense.
Perfect Tense: This is the main past tense, it indicates what you have done in the past (I went, I was, I gave). As opposed to Imperfect Tense.
Imperfect Tense: This is the tense that shows that you weren't able to complete something in the past. This tense also shows that you 'used to' do something. "I was walking, I was selling, I used to give".
Future Tense: I will go, You will be etc.
Conditional Tense: I would have, He would do.
Present Subjunctive Tense: Sorry but even I don't know about this type of tense. I know that "If I were you" and "I doubt that William will come" are in it.
Les Couleurs
Blue: bleu; bleue
Green: vert; verte
Red: rouge
Yellow: jaune
Orange: orange
Purple: violet; violette
Pink: rose
Black: noir; noire
White: blanc; blanche
Grey: gris
(The words that come after the first colour in French, are the feminine forms of the word. )