want to speak real french from your first lesson sign up for your free lifetime account at frenchpod101.com hey guys this is pierre from france today's lesson we will target present tense so you know in french you've got a lot of tense and the most basic one is the present present although the name is quite explicit and quite similar to the english word and the english tense we need to explain to you some subtilities some nuances that are happening with the usage of the past the prison tense so first we will target the usage then i will show you how to form it and then we will do some exercise to be sure that you understood everything so let's get started with the usage so here you can see five different usages so the first one is current actions so like in english when you want to explain an action that is being done you use present so here first example je pa here the verb is in red monge in english you can translate that by you can use i am eating bread or i eat bread i am eating bread or i eat bread je pa so here one way to translate that is to use the present in english as well but also you can use the progressive one i am eating i am eating bread so this is current actions in english you can use present or progressive present but in french it's generally just present here you've got another example he is angry he is hungry the verb present so basically here you're expressing a feeling so for a feeling you usually just uh use the prison so that's current actions or current feelings so here what you're doing i'm eating bread ju you i am hungry this is my feeling this is the current action the action of filling something so this is present so i think this is quite similar to the english one so this is something really simple for you to understand remember that's in many different situations you translate progressive present with a present simple present in french so this is this was the first one for current actions then you've got another one which is when an action has started before but is still underway so basically here detenis de predizon i have been playing tennis for 10 years so here the tense that you use in english is not present this is to be doing something you use to be doing something i have been playing tennis for 10 years je fait du tenis de predizon here this is present present so like you're not doing actually tennis like you're not currently playing tennis but for 10 years you have been regularly uh doing some tennis so you use and you're still doing it so you use present so this is an action that started but is still underway so here you started before but you're still doing it so this is something that can be translated this is present is a way to translate to be doing something in french then you've got true facts true facts so this is my name pierre il pierre my name is pierre or his name is pierre here his name is pierre this is true el sapel pierre this is a fact that is true so we use present here but here is like something that is uh like general like um a general truth the earth revolves around the sun so this is true and you need to use prison to express that and in english as well you use prison so this is similar for facts two facts you use prisons like in english then the next one is habits when you have you want to express an habit that you have you need to use the present in french for example if you are vegetarians and you want to say that you only eat vegetables you can say je ne merge que de legume je no morge que de legum i only eat vegetables legum vegetables i only eat vegetables so here that's a habit that you have like you when you eat it's always vegetables so here you use present another example is shaklandy je or cinema chaklandi jave or cinema every monday you go to cinema you go to the theater so here char clandy or cinema this is an habit that you have so you need to use prisons like you this is an action that you do regularly here every monday shaq landi or cinema every monday i go to the theater so this is hanabit and the last one is actions about to happen if you want to say that you will arrive at 2 pm in english you use will arrive but you can also say i arrived at 2pm in french this is more common to use just prisons so if you want to say that you want to underpin that the action is really about to happen like it means you will really arrive soon you can just drop the future and use the prison jareev there cathode geriv there cathode i will arrive at 2pm or literally i arrive at 2pm you can also use the future here but when you say when you use the prison it means like it's really about to happen so that's something that is almost done another example here is je regard and dernier episode so here you've got two verbs that are in present regard so i watch one last episode and then i go to sleep so here it's present but you still haven't watched your episode yet je regarded a new episode i'm about to watch one more episode and then i will go to bed but here because you want to uh you about to start but you still haven't started yet you use present journey episode here again you when you say you use the prison it means okay it's i'm soon gonna go to bed it's just one last episode so this is uh like really about to happen as well so for the two verbs you use present so you've got five different kind of usages current actions actions that has started but are still underway true facts habits and actions about to happen this is slightly different from english so be sure to understand the difference basically when you use i have been playing or i have been doing something usually in french it's translated with present and when you say i am doing something i am eating for example in most of the case you will translate in french uh with um something imprisoned a verb imprisoned i am eating german but it's not always the case but that's like kind of a tendency so you've got this pattern and this pattern that or sometimes translated into english so in most cases you will use english present and french present in the same situations but sometimes you've got some differences as you can see here to be doing something here it's present or to have been doing something here it's again it's present and sometimes the will like for the future is dropped so i will arrive just so be careful with that and remember all those usages now let's move on how on how to form that the first thing that you need to know when you learn the difference between all the forms in french is the groups so you know that there are four different groups the first group the second group the third group and then the auxiliaries so i'm gonna explain it once again the first group is all the verbs with ending with er er so here you've got an example to walk marche it's a verb from the first group words ending with er then you've got the second group with verbs ending with i or i or i or but it's not all the verbs ending with i or some of them are in the third group so be careful but most of them are in the second group and then you've got the irregular verbs that are all the other verbs and they are like really tricky because you need to learn by heart how to change their form so that's kind of of a pain but you need to you really need to know that because it's usually made of really common verbs like to be able to or vuluwar to once you need to learn those so this is something that you need to be careful first group second group third group and sometimes verb ending with ir or also in the third group and then you've got the two auxiliaries the two auxiliaries in french are avoir and etre to have and to be so here is the conjugation the the difference um forms for all of the verbs all of the categories and for the present only so here the what is good with the first two categories the first two group is it's regular you've got no exceptions so here is the verb marche to work and then e-n-t so what you need to do is just get rid of the ending the er and you add always the same ending so this is really simple be sure to learn all these those endings and you will be able to do the change the changement for the form for all the verbs of this group and then this is similar in the second group except the ending is a bit different so here if we take this verb finish to finish you've got finis so here be sure to check the s the s and the t and then those differences and if you know the verb you know it's a second group you just get rid of the ir and you add the correct ending depending on the subject so that's how you do that and then be careful once again if some verbs ending with i or are from irregular verbs group so be careful you need to know that and i'm not going to explain all the irregularities because otherwise it would be too long but here are the two auxiliaries and you really need to know them so here it's for the present here because it's starting with the vowel you get rid of the e then and then for the verb to be so this is what you need to remember for the prisons and then learn the irregular verbs so this is really simple like this is the easiest tense in french and this is the most common one so basically we are lucky for that so just remember all those endings and now let's do some practice because it's always good to after a lesson to practice so here are three different sentences with a gap here and i want you to complete with the verbs in blue here so here you've got tu and then the verb plure it means to cry and then so can you try by yourself to complete i'm to show you the answer after showing you all the examples so here il something the verb to cure or to heal say so if you have difficulties to understand the meaning of the sentences i'm going to translate that into english you're crying for nothing then the second one is he is healing faster than i was expecting and then the last one i am always the last one so here you've got the three verbs try by yourself and then i will show you the answers okay so the answers are pluri plure ends with er so it's first group so the subject is 2 2 e s so you just get rid of e r and you add e s and you've got you cry for nothing then ir luckily this is a second group verb so you just check the subject you see here i t so this is you get rid of the i t and you add i the i you get rid of the i or and you add i t here and the last one verb subject here verb so je suis so i'm going to repeat once again you cry for nothing he is healing faster than i was expecting i'm always the last one so this was the first exercise the second one might be a bit more difficult i want you to translate a sentence from french from english to french so here she has been playing piano for 10 years and the second one may be a bit more difficult whenever i get late i feel bad so the first one she has been playing piano for 10 years it's using a pattern that we've we've seen before do you remember okay so now i'm gonna show you the answers she has been playing piano for 10 years el jou du piano de puy di el ju piano so here you've got the verb that is playing playing present ju is first group verb so you just take this subject you see it's e so you add e at the end and then the last one whenever i get laid i feel bad the translation is a so here there is a space so here there are two verbs get late and feel bad so get late is it so like it's um like to be late the literal translation of to be late je suisse and then i feel bad in french the translation for to feel good or to feel bad it's um so here you take the transformation the subject is i i and then santir santir is irregular so you need to know how to form it and this is this this form is santia so this one was a bit more difficult so be sure to check all the irregular verbs that's really important for you if you want to master all the common verbs in french because the most common verbs are irregular that's a pity but you really need to learn that so let's sum it up so here we've seen the usage so five different usages when there is when this is the current actions um when the when you started the actions but it's still underway and also when you've got um like true facts and habits and then actions that are about to happen it's still not it still hasn't happened yet but it's really close to be to be done like it's it's about to happen and then you need to remember all those different endings so for the two groups for the two main verbs avoir and and then learn the irregular verbs that's really important well if you remember all that present tense is really easy for you now so i really hope you like it that's all for today's lesson if you like it you can click on the like button or subscribe to our channel you can also leave a comment in the comment section down below and if you want some more french resources you can go on our website frenchpod101.com you will find a lot of different contents that will help you to master french see you next time 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