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Handling irregularities in French
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emk
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Message 9 of 12

15 December 2012 at 8:09pm | IP Logged

tractor wrote:

Get the little Bescherelle book Iversen mentioned. It has been published under several titles, among them Le
nouveau Bescherelle: L'art de conjuger: Dictionnaire de 12000 verbes and Bescherelle: La conjugaison pour
tous.

I actually have pretty good luck with the cheapskate's approach:

Google "croit conjugaison"
or
Look up "croit" on Wiktionnaire, follow a link to the main entry, click "conjugaison"

I agree with Iversen that it's worth making the effort to memorize the regular verb endings. There's not very many of them, and all (virtually all?) the endings are regular outside of the present tense, so you're mostly just learning stems. Still, the important thing is that you shouldn't feel totally overwhelmed.
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tractor
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Message 10 of 12

15 December 2012 at 8:49pm | IP Logged

We actually disscuesd the same thing just a few months ago:
French verb
conjugations – best way?

Edited by tractor on 15 December 2012 at 8:49pm
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Tsopivo
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Message 11 of 12

16 December 2012 at 5:59am | IP Logged

Iversen wrote:

One generel advice would be always to keep a reference to the irregular verbs ready so that you can get any doubt solved within seconds.

I definitively agree with that. Even as a native speaker, I keep a few language resources websites in my favorites (grammar and conjugation references as well as dictionnaries...).
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liams
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Message 12 of 12

16 December 2012 at 9:58pm | IP Logged

Thank you for all your answers.
I'm currently exercising the different conjugations online, a bit every day, also using Anki.

I always have Wiktionary open, and I use it a lot.

Again, thank you all for answering. Some of the links you gave were really helpful.

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