

So here for example if you want to say je parle “I talk / I speak”, you can use the first one, je, you take parl and then you add E and you've got parle. If you want to use the verb parler, you take parl and then you add the correct conjugation.

If you know them, you can use the correct form for every verb at the present like every verb for the first group. So here, E, you've got all the ending for all the verbs of the first group. But what you have to remember is for présent which is “present”, you need to use the stem so here and then you had the ending of the conjugation. If you want to know the conjugation, you need to learn by yourself and I'm going to just repeat again the different endings for the conjugation. I'm not going to explain all the conjugation because it's not really important and it's not the purpose of this lesson. You have to know how to detect the stem and the ending and then for the most common tenses, it's quite easy so I'm going to explain just for the four more common tenses for the verbs. It's like when you say to speak in in English, like in the dictionary, you can find verbs with this form, parler. All verbs from the first group are made of a stem and the ending which is always E-R and then you've got, if you add the stem and the ending, you've got the infinitive form of the verb. So as you can see here, you have always E-R and you’ve got what we call a stem. Here, you've got some example, to speak “parler”, to eat “manger”, to walk “marcher”. You can say half is in the second group and the other half is in the third group. So all the verbs with E-R are in the first group except aller and all the verb with E-R are from the second group or from the third group. The verb aller which is also a third group like the exception group. Also, I will explain how you can use E-R verbs because there is only one exception. So we will explain how you can try to recognize verbs from the second group and from the third group even if there is just the I-R. So this is kind of annoying because these here, the third group is known to be full of a lot of exceptions and those with I-R, you have a lot of exceptions. The second group is only for -ir, I-R, but the problem is, the third group is for many different kind of verbs, but also for I-R. The first group is E-R, always E-R, only verbs with this ending or in this group, -er. You know in French, there are three groups first group, second group and third group. So without further ado, let's get started. I think those ones are the most common one and we'll explain all in details how you can detect the words and the groups of these endings. It's Pierre from France and today's video will be about verb endings and especially -er and -ir. Hey, guys! Welcome back for more videos on French learning.
