Verb Conjugation Made Easy with Conjugaisons

1. Putting It Together An ER verb assembly kit

2. La Conjugaison des Verbes Verb Conjugation So what is conjugation? What does “conjugate” mean? In grammatical terms, it’s… Taking the regular form of the verb (such as: to have, to eat, to dance, to speak, etc) and changing it to agree with the subject of the verb (the person/object performing the action) We conjugate verbs in English every day! How???

3. La Conjugaison des Verbes Verb Conjugation Watch carefully as our verb construction crew conjugates an English verb in the present tense. To be I am We are You are You (pl) are He/She is They are

4. La Conjugaison des Verbes Verb Conjugation Here are some other familiar verbs in English: to eat to dance I dance We dance You dance You (pl) dance He/She dancesThey dance I eatWe eat Youeat You (pl) eat He/She eatsThey eat We change “to dance” (the infinitive) to “dance” or “dances” depending on who is doing the dancing. (I, You, He, She, We, They). We do the same for “to eat.”

5. La Conjugaison des Verbes Verb Conjugation Here are a couple more verbs conjugated in English: to watch to work IwatchWe watch You watch You (pl) watch He/She watchesThey watch I workWe work You work You (pl) work He/She worksThey work C’est facile, n’est-ce pas?

6. La Conjugaison des Verbes Verb Conjugation Would you say... He are? She work? I is? You be? You to work? I to be? They watches? Of course not! Conjugated verbs are not interchangeable! It sounds ridiculous! It’s the same way with the French language. Let’s try conjugating French verbs.

7. La Conjugaison des Verbes Parts and Accessories In order to be a successful verb conjugator, you will need to know the following:

8. La Conjugaison des Verbes Parts and Accessories In order to be a successful verb conjugator, you will need to know the following: The person or thing doing the action (je, vous, Marie) Subject-

9. La Conjugaison des Verbes Parts and Accessories In order to be a successful verb conjugator, you will need to know the following: The person or thing doing the action (je, vous, Marie) Subject- Infinitive- The verb in its raw state: to like / aimer

10. La Conjugaison des Verbes Parts and Accessories In order to be a successful verb conjugator, you will need to know the following: The person or thing doing the action (je, vous, Marie) Subject- Infinitive- The verb in its raw state: to like / aimer What are some other infinitive verbs that you already know? chanter travailler écouter parler étudier

11. La Conjugaison des Verbes Parts and Accessories In order to be a successful verb conjugator, you will need to know the following: The person or thing doing the action (je, vous, Marie) Subject- Infinitive- The verb in its raw state: to like / aimer What are some other infinitive verbs that you already know? chanter travailler écouter parler étudier Stem- The verb without the er: travaill, étudi, écout, parl, chant...

12. La Conjugaison des Verbes Parts and Accessories And most importantly: the endings! The combination of letters that we put in place of the “er” that we dropped earlier. Each pronoun has it’s own ending to be used. Below is a chart that gives these endings. The pronunciation of the endings is in the brackets.

13. La Conjugaison des Verbes Parts and Accessories Or think of it this way: er e, es, e, ons, ez, ent aim, dans, chant, parl Je, Tu, Nous, la fille, Ils aimer, danser, chanter, parler The worker chooses the bit for each drill!!!

14. La Conjugaison des Verbes Parts and Accessories Let’s conjugate a verb by following the 4 simple steps:

15. La Conjugaison des Verbes Parts and Accessories Let’s conjugate a verb by following the 4 simple steps: • Decide on the worker (the subject of the sentence... Who is doing the action?)

16. La Conjugaison des Verbes Parts and Accessories Let’s conjugate a verb by following the 4 simple steps: • Decide on the worker (the subject of the sentence... Who is doing the action?) • Choose your drill package (the infinitive verb)

17. La Conjugaison des Verbes Parts and Accessories Let’s conjugate a verb by following the 4 simple steps: • Decide on the worker (the subject of the sentence... Who is doing the action?) • Choose your drill package (the infinitive verb) • Remove allerpackaging from the drill

18. La Conjugaison des Verbes Parts and Accessories Let’s conjugate a verb by following the 4 simple steps: • Decide on the worker (the subject of the sentence... Who is doing the action?) • Choose your drill package (the infinitive verb) • Remove theerpackaging from the drill • Select the correct drill bit for the worker given (the ending that goes with your subject)

19. La Conjugaison des Verbes Parts and Accessories parler (infinitive) “to speak” How do we say “I speak...”

20. La Conjugaison des Verbes Parts and Accessories parler (infinitive) “to speak” How do we say “I speak...” Je

21. La Conjugaison des Verbes Parts and Accessories parler (infinitive) “to speak” How do we say “I speak...” Je + infinitive (to speak) parler

22. La Conjugaison des Verbes Parts and Accessories parler (infinitive) “to speak” How do we say “I speak...” Je + infinitive (to speak) parler – “er” (parl)

23. La Conjugaison des Verbes Parts and Accessories parler (infinitive) “to speak” How do we say “I speak...” Je + infinitive (to speak) parler – “er” (parl) + the ending that goes with je (e) = parle

24. La Conjugaison des Verbes Parts and Accessories parler (infinitive) “to speak” How do we say “I speak...” Je + infinitive (to speak) parler – “er” (parl) + the ending that goes with je (e) = parle Je parle. = I speak. I am speaking. I do speak.

25. La Conjugaison des Verbes Je parle français. (I speak French.) (I am speaking French.) (I do speak French.)

26. La Conjugaison des Verbes Parts and Accessories parler (infinitive) “to speak” How do we say “He speaks...”

27. La Conjugaison des Verbes Parts and Accessories parler (infinitive) “to speak” How do we say “He speaks...” Il

28. La Conjugaison des Verbes Parts and Accessories parler (infinitive) “to speak” How do we say “He speaks...” Il + infinitive (to speak) (parler)

29. La Conjugaison des Verbes Parts and Accessories parler (infinitive) “to speak” How do we say “He speaks...” Il + infinitive (to speak) (parler) – “er” (parl)

30. La Conjugaison des Verbes Parts and Accessories parler (infinitive) “to speak” How do we say “He speaks...” Il + infinitive (to speak) (parler) – “er” (parl) + the ending that goes with “il” (e) (parle)

31. La Conjugaison des Verbes Parts and Accessories parler (infinitive) “to speak” How do we say “He speaks...” Il + infinitive (to speak) (parler) – “er” (parl) + the ending that goes with “il” (e) (parle) =il parle

32. La Conjugaison des Verbes Parts and Accessories parler (infinitive) “to speak” How do we say “He speaks...” Il + infinitive (to speak) (parler) – “er” (parl) + the ending that goes with “il” (e) (parle) =il parle (he speaks, he is speaking, he does speak)

33. La Conjugaison des Verbes Parts and Accessories parler (infinitive) “to speak” How do we say “you speak...” tu + infinitive (to speak) (parler) – “er” + the ending that goes with “tu” (es) = tu parles ( you speak, you are speaking, you do speak.)

34. La Conjugaison des Verbes Parts and Accessories parler (infinitive) “to speak” How do we say “we speak...” nous + infinitive (to speak) (parler) – “er” + the ending that goes with “nous” (ons) = nous parlons ( we speak, we are speaking, we do speak.)

35. La Conjugaison des Verbes Parts and Accessories parler (infinitive) “to speak” How do we say “they speak...” ils + infinitive (to speak) (parler) – “er” + the ending that goes with “ils” (ent) = ils parlent ( they speak, they are speaking, they do speak.)

36. La Conjugaison des Verbes Parts and Accessories parler parler – er + e= parle = je parle parler – er + es = parles = tu parles parler – er + e = parle = il/elle parle parler – er + ons = parlons = nous parlons parler – er + ez = parlez = vous parlez parler – er + ent = parlent = ils parlent Je Tu Il/Elle Nous Vous Ils/Elles

37. La Conjugaison des Verbes Parts and Accessories aimer aimer – er + e= aime = j’aime aimer – er + es = aimes = tu aimes aimer – er + e = aime = il/elle aime aimer – er + ons = aimons = nous aimons aimer – er + ez = aimez = vous aimez aimer – er + ent = aiment = ils aiment Je Tu Il/Elle Nous Vous Ils/Elles

38. La Conjugaison des Verbes Parts and Accessories FELICITATIONS Once you have memorized these endings, you will be able to conjugate any regular –er verb in the French language. That means you can conjugate hundreds of verbs...