Spanky Senior Member Canada Joined 5956 days ago 1021 posts - 1714 votes Studies: French
| Message 49 of 119 12 September 2012 at 8:51am | IP Logged |
Regular -IR verbs
I still have nightmares about -IR verbs from elementary school.
FAC -IR verbs, present
indicative conjugation
common -IR verbs
Edited by Spanky on 12 September 2012 at 8:52am
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Spanky Senior Member Canada Joined 5956 days ago 1021 posts - 1714 votes Studies: French
| Message 50 of 119 13 September 2012 at 8:45am | IP Logged |
Regular -RE verbs
french.about.com - regular
-RE verb conjugation
FAC: most common -RE
verbs - characterized as the most common -RE verbs, but I had not come across a
number of them ever before.
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Spanky Senior Member Canada Joined 5956 days ago 1021 posts - 1714 votes Studies: French
| Message 51 of 119 13 September 2012 at 8:52am | IP Logged |
One of the -RE regular verbs mentioned in the preceding link was répandre - to
spread or scatter. In a previous FAC mot du jour, essaimer was also indicated as
meaning to spread or scatter. I gather neither of these properly describe what I have
just done to some peanut butter, and that étaler would be more appropriate and
less figurative than the other two verbs.
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Spanky Senior Member Canada Joined 5956 days ago 1021 posts - 1714 votes Studies: French
| Message 52 of 119 13 September 2012 at 9:07am | IP Logged |
Tense - present tense - le présent
FAC - intro to present tense
Used for the following:
- current actions or situations or states of being
- habitual actions (je vais au bureau tous les jours)
- absolute and general truths
- actions which will occur in the immediate future
- conditions - si clauses (si je peux, j'irai avec vous)
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Spanky Senior Member Canada Joined 5956 days ago 1021 posts - 1714 votes Studies: French
| Message 53 of 119 13 September 2012 at 9:11am | IP Logged |
DCCA: 994:07:11 - getting some French radio listening in, and lots of Anki, though way
off pace for running out the DCCA by 31/DEC/2013.
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Spanky Senior Member Canada Joined 5956 days ago 1021 posts - 1714 votes Studies: French
| Message 54 of 119 14 September 2012 at 3:21am | IP Logged |
Tense - passé composé
FAC - intro to passé composé
- actions completed in the past
- actions repeated a number of times in the past
- a series of actions completed in the past
FAC: passé composé conjugation
- when auxillary verb is être, past participle must agree with the subject
- when auxillary verb is avoir, past participle may have to agree with the direct object
Edited by Spanky on 14 September 2012 at 3:27am
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Spanky Senior Member Canada Joined 5956 days ago 1021 posts - 1714 votes Studies: French
| Message 55 of 119 16 September 2012 at 8:43pm | IP Logged |
Repeating auxillary verbs - yea or nay?
Repeating auxillaries
ie. I ate and drank - j'ai mangé et bu OU j'ai mangé et ai bu OU j'ai mangé and
j'ai bu - apparently optional if it is the same auxillary in each clause, but
mandatory if different auxillary verb or different auxillary use in the same clause
(ie. être for être verbs v. pronominal situations).
Edited by Spanky on 16 September 2012 at 8:44pm
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Spanky Senior Member Canada Joined 5956 days ago 1021 posts - 1714 votes Studies: French
| Message 56 of 119 16 September 2012 at 8:53pm | IP Logged |
Etre verbs
FAC: verbs that require être
for the auxillary verb
1. all verbs used pronominally; and
2. the following (when used intransitively):
- aller
- arriver
- descendre (redescendre)
- entrer (rentrer)
- monter (remonter)
- mourir
- naître
- partir
- passer
- rester
- retourner
- sortir
- tomber
- venir, devenir, parvenir, revenir
Edited by Spanky on 16 September 2012 at 9:07pm
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