


While regular verbs are predictable, irregular verbs are not, meaning they do not follow a specific pattern.īecause the last letters of French irregular verbs do not determine what conjugated endings they receive, you need to memorize them. For past-tense words, you would remove the standard “ed” letters. Typically, regular verbs end with “er,” “ir,” or “re.” To put these verbs in present tense, you would remove the last two letters, followed by adding the appropriate endings based on the subject.

When it comes to verbs, there are many different applications and rules. If true, that gives you even more reason to start learning French. If that comes to fruition, it means that French will be the most spoken language in the world, even ahead of English and Mandarin Chinese, which is the native tongue of more than 1 billion people. In a 2014 Forbes magazine publication, the investment bank Natixis projected that 750 million people will speak French by 2050.
