Warm-up: Read the comic about school. Translate as much as possible

French verb groupsIn French there are 5 verb groups• -er (You already know how to conjugate)• -ir • -re• Stem-changing (verbs that have regular

endings, but spelling changes to the stem)• Irregular ( you know some of the most

common, like etre, aller, faire, and avoir)

Notes on –re verbs

Remember: You already are familiar with the 1st verb group, -er verbs. You know how to conjugate regular –er verbs by removing the “er”. Next, you take the stem, and add the endings e, es, e, ons, ez, ent

Example: je regarde nous regardons tu regardes vous regardezil, elle, on regarde ils, elles regardent

-re verbs cont.

• Now we are going to add a second type of regular verb group (the smallest group), verbs ending in –re.

• Just like with –er verbs, you are going to take off the last 2 letters, and then add endings.

• However, the pattern of endings are different, s, s, nothing, ons, ez, ent

Example –re verb

attendre- to wait forTake of the ending: attendre, stem= attend

J’ attends nous attendonsTu attends vous attendezIl, elle, on attend ils, elles attendent

Other –re verbs conjugated the same way• Entendre- to hear• Perdre- to lose• Vendre- to sell• Rendre- to return, to give back (like in English render)• Répondre (à)- to answer, to answer to (like in English

respond)• Rendre visite à- to visit (someone) – Note: you can use the verb visiter to say you’re

visiting a place, but to say your visiting a person, you have to use rendre visite à. So, “vous visitez Paris”, but “vous rendez visite à votre grand-mère”

Practice

• Use the same pattern we used to conjugate attendre to conjugate perdre- to lose

Stem= Je NousTu Vous Il, elle on ils, elles