Mr. Brown
Guided Notes—Les conjugaisons des verbes réguliers au présent (Conjugating
regular verbs in the present tense)
 Prior knowledge required about the present tense
o In any language, a particular tense is used to indicate the
______________ at which an action is being performed. One uses the
______________ tense in English and in French to express actions that
are happening.
 Information related to conjugating in French
o Conjugating is the process of changing the ______________ of a verb
according to a given subject. In French, this may or may not have an
effect on how the conjugation is _______________.
o There are three major verb categorizations in French. These are verbs
ending in __________, verbs ending in __________, and verbs ending
in ____________.
o In addition to being classified based on its infinitive ending, every verb
in French also is referred to as being either _______________ or
_______________ in relation to its conjugations. If a verb is referred to
as being _______________, than that means that one would have no
way of predicting with certainty the conjugations of that verb because
the conjugations do not follow any discernable pattern. If a verb is
referred to as being _______________, than that means that the
conjugations of the verb follow an established pattern.
 How to conjugate regular verbs in the present tense
o –er verbs
 Begin by dropping the __________ from the _____________
form of the verb. Example: regarder___________ (this is
now referred to as the stem)
 Next, one adds an appropriate ending to the stem. Write in the
endings for each subject below.
Je ___________
Nous __________
Tu ___________
Vous __________
Il/Elle/On _____
Ils/Elles ________
Now, conjugate each of the following –er verbs below.
parler=
regarder=
étudier=
Mr. Brown
écouter=
travailler=
téléphoner=
jouer=
dîner=
aimer=
*nager=
*voyager=
*manger=
*Verbs ending in –ger receive an _______ in between the g and the
ons in the first person plural form. For example: Nous nageons.
Some other common regular –er verbs include:
 Translations
o There are fewer tenses in French than there are in English. This will
require you to avoid direct (or word for word) translation at times. For
example,
the
statement
J’écoute
la
musique=
____________________________________________
or__________________________________________
or __________________________________________.
Likewise, for example, if you wanted to say any of the following
English statements in French
I play soccer,
I am playing soccer, or
I do play soccer
there would only be one way to say them = ______________________.
(Je suis jouer au foot. Elle est regarder la télé. Nous sommes étudier. Il
est écouter la musique. Tu es parler. Never—they do not exist.)