French Verbs Regular and Irregular (Classic Reprint)

How to learn them thoroughly in a few Lessons. There is really but one way to learn the French verbs thoroughly, so that one does not forget thein, and this is, 1st to perfectly understand the Formation of tenses by means of the stem and endings; 2d to learn the Principal Parts. A verb in the Infinitive has one of the endings er, ir, oir, re. Therefore the French Grammarians divide the verbs in four conjugations, (after the Latin.) Take the ending er, ir, oir, re off, and that which remains is the regular stem of the verb. There are about 4,500 verbs in er, 400 in ir, 35 in oir and 240 in re. All verbs in er, except oiler and envoy er are conjugated alike; donner is given as a model of the first conjugation. All verbs in ir, oir, re have the same endings, but the regular stem is changed, more or less, in the different parts of the verb; these changes or irregularities have to be learned and are shown in the Principal Parts. To make it easier for beginners and to accustom them to the formation of the tenses, the verbs, except avoir, Ure and donner will be conjugated in the order of their principal parts. We give here a table of the tenses in the grammatical order. This table must be committed to memory, with the meaning of each tense, taking the verb to do for an example.
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