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FRENCH VERBS: CONJUGATION AND MEANING
There is now a list of verbs from French to English. There will be a list of English to French hopefully soon.

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About Verb Infinitives

A verb infinitive means that the verb has not been conjugated. An English infinitive then, would be "to eat". When conjugated, the result can be:

I eat OR I'm eating
You eat OR You're eating
He eats OR He's eating
She eats OR She's eating
We eat OR We're eating
Y'all eat OR Y'all are eating
They eat OR They're eating

There are three different types of French verbs, verbs ending in: er, ir, and re. An example of an er verb would be parler, which means "to speak". An example of an ir verb is rougir (is that better?), which means "to blush". An example of an re verb would be vendre, which means "to sell". Top of Page
How to Conjugate er Verbs in the Present Indicative Tense

The verbs ending in er are the most common in the French language. Most are regular, but there are a few exceptions, such as aller (to go). But let's take a regular er verb to conjugate. The verb trouver, which means "to find".
Je trouve
Je means "I". This means, I find OR I'm finding. With the form je, you take er off of the infinitive(trouver), and add an e, to give you "trouve". This is pronounced, troov.
Tu trouves
Tu means "you". This means, you find OR you're finding. With the form tu, you take the er off of trouver, and add an es, to give you "trouves". The pronunciation is the same as je.
Il/Elle trouve
Il means "he" OR in some cases "it"(in this case, il cannot be used). This means, he finds OR he's finding, she finds OR she's finding. With the forms il/elle, you do the same as je, which is to drop the er and add back the e, giving you "trouve". The pronunciation is the same as je also.
Nous trouvons
Nous means "we". This means we find OR we're finding. With the form nous, you drop the er off of trouver, and add ons, to give you "trouvons". This is pronounced, troovon.
Vous trouvez
Vous means "y'all" OR in some cases, you use vous to respect someone. If you were addressing the President of France, you would say, "Comment allez-vous?", which means "how are you", formally, that is. This means y'all find OR y'all are finding or is used in the formal aspect. With the form vous, you drop the er off of trouver and add an ez, to give you "trouvez". This is pronounced, troovay.
Ils/Elles trouvent
Ils means "they"(masculine), used when referring to a group of males and also to refer to a group of boys and girls. Elles means "they"(feminine), referring to a group of girls. This means they find OR they're finding. With the forms ils and elles, you drop the er and add ent, to give you "trouvent". The pronunciation is the same as je, leaving the ent silent and sounding like, troov.
Top of Page Accent Marks in the Conjugator and the Language
There are 5 different accent marks in the French language:
grave = back slash. Example: à --> a\
aigu = forward slash. Example: é --> e/
circonflexe = caret. Example: ê --> e^
cedille = coma. Example ç --> c,
trema = double quote. Example ö --> o"

In the conjugator, you must type in the following symbols if necessary:
<^>etre = être
<`>a = à
<'>ecouter = écouter
ha<">ir = haïr
fran<+>cais = français

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Other Conjugations

That was just conjugation in the present tense, and it was also an er verb. There are also ir and re in the present as well as other tenses, including:
Imperfect Indicative (Imparfait de l'indicatif)-I was going, you were going, etc. OR I went, you went, etc. OR I used to go OR you used to go, etc.
Simple Past (Passé simple)-I went, you went, etc. OR I did go, you did go, etc.
Future (Futur)-I shall go, you will go, he will go, we shall go, they will go
Conditional (Conditionnel)-I would go, you would go, etc.
Present Subjunctive (Présent du subjonctif)-that I may go, that you may go, etc.
Imperfect Subjunctive (Imparfait du subjonctif)-that I might go, that you may go, etc.
Passé Composé-I have gone, you have gone, etc. OR I went, you went, etc. OR I did go, you did go, etc.
Pluperfect or Past Perfect Indicative (Plus-que-parfait de l'indicatif)-I had gone, you had gone, etc.
Past Anterior (Passé antérieur)-I had gone, you had gone, etc.
Future Perfect or Future Anterior (Futur antérieur)-I shall have gone, you will have gone, he will have gone, we shall have gone, they will have gone
Conditional Perfect (Conditionnel passé)-I would have gone, you would have gone, etc.
Past Subjunctive (Passé du subjonctif)-that I may have gone, that you may have gone
Pluperfect or Past Perfect Subjunctive (Plus-que-parfait du subjonctif)-that I might have gone, that you might have gone
These are the fourteen tenses (14 includes Present Indicative) in the French language as opposed to the 6 in English: Present, Past, Future, Present Perfect, Past Perfect, and Future Perfect. The first three are simple tenses while the last three are compound. In French, the first 7 tenses are simple and the last 7 are compound. There is also Imperative, or a command (Impératif)-Go. Let's go! It is not a tense, but rather a mood.
In the verb conjugator, you will find Present Indicative, Simple Past (Passé Simple), Future, Conditional, Imperfect Indicative, and Present Subjunctive tenses.

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French Verb Conjugator
Conjugate a verb by selecting the tense and entering the infinitive form of the verb in the box.
(About verb tenses)

Present
Simple Past
Future
Conditional
Imperfect
Subjunctive

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