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Conjugating RE Verbs

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Two weeks ago, we learned how to conjugate ER verbs in the present tense. Last week we learned how to conjugate IR verbs. This week it’s the last of the three main verb groups – RE verbs. RE verbs are the least common of the three regular verb groups, but they’re still important.

 Our pattern:

  REverbPattern

That’s it. Pretty simple, right? The second column is exactly like the second column in our ER verb pattern. Remember?

 And the first column is pretty simple too. Just remember – you drop the –re from the il/elle form and you add nothing.

 So, let’s take a common example verb:

  REverbvendre

If you know how to conjugate ER, IR, and RE verbs – you know a lot of the everyday (and a lot of the not-so-everyday) verbs.  See? Verb conjugation isn’t so tricky after all.

TV5 Conjugating Verbs 2

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Conjugating in neat little exercises and tables is helpful, but that's not really the goal. What counts is being able to conjugate verbs in real sentences – in the context of actually expressing something.

In this previous post we looked at a verb conjugating game at TV5 which offers drills in verb conjugation. There's another similar game at TV5 which is a harder, but also far closer to real-life use of the language.

TV5 Conjugaison en contexte

TV5Conjugaisonencontexte

 

In this game you are given sentences with one verb left in the infinitive. It is up to you to determine the correct tense, mood, and subject and to conjugate the verb accordingly. At the end you'll get a printable scorecard like this:

TV5ConjugaisonResultats

A few things to know about this game:

– It's pretty hard; even at the easiest level you'll be expected to conjugate the conditional and the subjunctive. (At the harder levels, the verbs themselves get harder – more irregular.)

-As you can tell from my results, a missed accent will make your answer wrong. I just accepted this and personally count these answers as correct since it can be difficult to type the accents with an American keyboard.

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So, did you try it? How'd you do?