If you take one thing, just one thing away from my channel in learning French, it is this video. Here are some super top tips for understanding French conjugation. So, let me take you on a journey through three French verbs, and you'll see how easy it is to learn French. Now, because it is a very special video, we have decided to give you the full support guide of this very lesson for free. You can find it here or in the description below. Okay, have a look at Mari. Mari means to walk and I'm going to conjugate it in six different tenses. conditional future. And what I've done, I've colorcoded them. And the reason why I've done that is to show you that sometimes the endings of one tense is the same as the endings of another tense. But what is the difference then if the both endings are the same? Well, I'm going to show you what happens. Listen very carefully. Now look at this very carefully. Here we go. Mar is a really common eer verb. It's highly regular. Not irregular, very regular. Now mar the infinitive is to walk. Okay? To walk. And in French it is mare with e r the end. And that's how we tell that the verb is in its infinitive form. And it's very important. Please please note that to walk is an infinitive of a verb. A verb that has not yet been touched or conjugated. I am giving you as well for this verb or the verbs we are about to have a look at the participant which is the present participle. So in effect we want to say while walking ing walking. So this is the ing form of that verb we want to conjugate. And another part of the the verb I want to give you is the past participle the particip. And here it's walked. For example, the past participle, you will see it in the passive composite or a past tense in English. I have walked. That bit walked is the past participle. So, let's have a look at Marie in the present tense. I'm going to keep my uh pink uh ending for the present tense of mar verb. Okay? because the endings will be different for second group verbs. for the second or the third group verbs. Okay. So for the present tense we want to say I walk or I'm walking. Marshl mars v mar e z. And then to say they are walking. Il mar e n t el marsh e n t. Okay, so present tense easy enough in eer verb. These are the endings. So what do you do? You drop the eer of off the infinitive form and you add those endings and it works for all the eer verbs except for one which is highly irregular verb. Don't ask me why. It's Ali to go. A d L E R is a third group, not a first group. That's the only one in eer. Okay. So, we've got the ending of the present tense. Okay. What we want now is to be able to say I have walked or I walked. In order to do that, we need a the verb to have in the present tense because passive composite is composed of the auxiliary and b we need the past participle of the verb we want to conjugate. So what happens here? All we need to do is add have you look at this past participle for mashy. We drop e r and we add an accent at the e. Okay. So it will become j mar I have walked to and so on. Okay. [Music] Now, the reason why I've highlighted the to have in the present tense in red is really, really relevant. In a minute, you're going to understand why. To remember, this lesson is all about showing you some patterns and making it easier for you to conjugate. Okay? Everything is really relevant here for another tense a bit later. Now, have you noticed that I have used the new form and the ill form in different colors? So, I am going to highlight for you this one. L Mar. Okay. Now, this is in orange. And the reason why it's in orange is because it is often used as a stem for other tenses. for example. So I'm going to use the stem of new in the present tense in order to conjugate the aer tense. So I'm using the same stance stense stem here. Okay. And what I'm going to do is I'm going to add the special imperfect endings which are mar I used to walk or I was walking. Do you know how to say you used to walk or you were walking? to Maril Mar. And then the imperfect is a very interesting tense. It's not because that's the present tense. Mar is we are walking, but we want to say we were walking. All you need to do is add an I. Mar. We were walking. We used to walk. So you do the same for vu v mar. Okay. I e z. And then the ending for ill and l in the imperfect tense is mare. Mar. So in effect this sound, this sound, this sound, this sound, and this sounds are exactly the same. It's a regardless whether it ends with a s or a t or e n t. And here we have conjugated the verb m in its in perfect form. Okay? Or past tense. And what we've done, we have used the new form and I'm going to drag it here. So the new form we have used it for the stem of the amper. Can you see the correlation here? Now what other color scheme do you see? I see green as well. Well, why am I using green of ill marsh? This is going to be the beginning the stem for all the subjunctive present that you are going to conjugate. Okay? So I use mare. Okay. Mar and I'm going to use pink again to give me an ending here. So subjunct is a funny tense. I cover it in great length in my course especially in lesson 30. And by the way, all the tenses that I'm currently teaching you here are covered in so much more details in these lessons in the complete French course at learn French with Alexa. Now, and let's have a look at the ending. So, I'm taking the stem of ill in order to conjugate in the subjunctive. Can you see the color code here? It will become much clearer when you conjugate in the second and third group. [Music] [Music] Marsh and here certainly the ending is the same as the imperfect mar and mar. So let's have a look at it again. Can you see what's happening here? Okay. And then we've got the conditional. So we want to say I would walk. Okay. And the conditional is a very interesting uh part okay of the conjugation process. Mar is the infinitive. And this is exactly and I'm going to use uh I'm going to use blue here. Take the whole verb as it is as a stem. It's all about understanding which stem to use for what tense. Okay? In that case for the conditional, you use the whole stem. The whole of the infinitive verb, which is mar. I've done it here. Look for you. Mari. So that's your stem. Okay? And then what follows is very interesting. You're using the same endings as the imperfect. to mar. You would walk. Can you see that? Veril and L. So have a look at the conditional and the imperfect. What's the difference? Yes. Well, the difference is the stem only, not the endings, just the stem. That's right. And how did I say we were producing the imperfect? by using the stem of the new form in the present tense. I go back to my thing. Here we go. New mar that is the stem and the beginning of your tense for the emper. Okay. And how do we form the conditional? By keeping the whole verb as it is and adding that. Now, do you remember when I said to you that knowing your uh verb in the auxiliary the auxiliary verb a in the present tense was very important? Well, it is important for the future tense. How you're going to how Alexa? Why? How? I Well, listen really carefully and this is a top tip which I think will save your, you know, life when it comes to understanding French conjugation. Here, have a look at the pass composi, but have a look at to have. I have to you have we have you have now this I want you to concentrate on this very very very very carefully okay because these are the endings that you're going to put in your future tense. The future tense what is the stem? The stem is the same as the conditional, but it's not the same ending. The ending of the future is E Z and suddenly what we've done we've conjugated the future okay the the verb in the future tense I will walk you will walk he she he one will walk and You will notice something as well. Have a look at conditional new form and v and the future. One letter I makes a lot of difference. One is I would you would walk and the other one is you will walk where it's very obvious in English because of the model verbs. It's not that obvious in French. We have one letter that differentiates two that differentiates two uh tenses. So to recap and we're going to see the difference in the second and third uh group to recap in order to form the subjunctive use the stem of the eel of the ill form in the present tense. So il marsh. Okay, that stem in order to form the imperfect use the stem of the new form of the present tense mar is the same okay a subjunctive for eer verb okay and then in order to form the conditional and the future use exactly the infinitive verb the whole verb like so as for the endings the endings for the imperfect are the same and I'm going to show you as the endings for the conditional and the endings of the future tense are the same of the present tense of a which is to have. Oh, and another thing is when you create the present participle of a verb, you need to use and I'm going to use orange here. the stem of the new form and I'm going to drag it here here for the present participle and it's very it might not be obvious on the eer verb but it will be in the i verb that we are about to see now okay so here we go what does an I verb look like using all these patterns let's have a look at fine so I verbs are belong to the second group. Okay? And they follow a really really specific pattern in a way they are quite regular. Now bear in mind that we have I adverbs I verbs that belong to the third group. That's another story completely. So I know I know you you're going to say, "Oh gosh, you're teaching me something and then you're giving me an exception." Yeah, this is French for you. Learn 10 basic regular verb and then you'll be fine. conjugating the second group verbs in these six different tenses. So let's have a look at the ending of the i verb in the present tense. So for it's safini sorry it's a tini and then this is where it's very interesting the new form for i verb is okay. For example, I want to use obey to obey. Okay, there will be a sound to the present tense of that verb. So, vin and then finish a len. Okay. And again, I've used the same color code orange for new, green for ill. And you will see that we have here for green and I'm going to highlight green fine. Okay, the same stem like I said for the subjunctive subjunctive use the ill form present tense for the stem of your subjunctive and add those special endings. Okay, let's put that aside just for a minute. Fine. The infinitive is to finish. Okay. To finish. I'm going to write it to finish. Okay. The past the present participle of that verb is and I said to you, do you remember what I said? Use the new form in order to have the present participle stem here. Okay. So, it means finishing. Finishing ing. And the past participle of any verb will be finish. So you remove the R. So for example, obe would be remove the R. Okay. So a remove the R. Okay. So the past participle is finished. I have finished. All right. So let's have a look at the subjunctive tense of an I verb. So like I say, you start with the stem for ill, you start the subjunctive with that stem. Okay? So the stem for ill, okay, is your beginning for the subjunctive. So okay, so let's have a look at that. That looks like the ending of the present tense of an er verb. So, and then what's funny is that when you use new form for the subjunctive, it's the I n s the same as the a and the conditional tense. Okay? And then we've got and kefinis. Now remember what you have to remember is that the beginning of your subjunctive is the stem of ill in the present tense of the i verb. Okay. Of course if you're using say not. Okay. Now do you remember what I said about the emper the conditional and future? Okay. Well, there it becomes really really obvious that you need the stem in order for it to look different for the amper for the conditional and the future tense. So, I've conjugated the empire for you. Now, I am using and I'm using orange here and I'm going to drag it all the way here to show you that the beginning is exactly the same. And I should do the same for all the way for the subjunctive here. Can you see that? Okay. So, we want to say I used to finish. I was finishing. Here we go. Stem finish. And the endings are this ones. Ais Okay. So, I used to finish, we were finishing, she was finishing and so on. This is what we are saying. Okay. Now, when it comes to the conditional, we are not using the same stem of the as the imperfect because it would make it the imperfect. Okay? We've got to make this difference. We want to say I would finish and in order to do that we are using the whole verb as it is and we are using it as a stem and then we are adding the imperfect endings. Okay. So I would finish you would finish. He would finish. She would finish. And so on. Okay. And then when it comes to the future tense, do you remember what we did? We're using the same stem, which is the entire verb. Okay? But then we are adding the we're adding the verb a in the present tense. The endings of the verb a to a. So here we go. I will finish. How is that? Now what I want to do now, okay, we we're starting to understand there is a pattern and a correlation between the tenses here. Okay, I know it sounds crazy when you start learning uh French conjugation, but trust me, there is a pattern and we only covered six verbs here uh six tenses. Okay, let's have a look at what happens when you conjugate a verb in these six tenses uh using a third group verb. I'm using B as an example. You've got to understand that uh all these verbs are highly irregular. So what I would like you to do is maybe take 10 or 20 most common verbs in the third group and learn what their infinitives are, their present participle and their uh participy or past participle. And that will help you start the stem uh for the conditional and the future and also for the pass compos. Okay. So that's already half of the battle won uh somehow. So if I take bir uh as a verb. Okay. Bu is to drink. The infinitive is to drink. Okay. We are very clear. The present participle is bu. So drinking. Oh, sorry. I can't spell drinking. Drinking. Okay. And the way we created the uh present participle is by using the stem of the new of the present tense of bu which we are going to see in a minute. So b like I have said it in the beginning on the group one and group two. Okay. Bon drinking. What is going to vary a lot is the past participle of these verbs. So for b it's boo random and this is drunk. Okay, drunk. I have drunk, not I drank. I have drunk. That's the past participle. To make it easier because it sounds very different. If you take the verb to eat, okay, and you put it in its past participle form, it becomes eaten. I have eaten not ate eaten and that's what a past participle is. Okay. So let's have a look at the present tense of bir. Now what you have to understand and I've done it here the this is the ending of bir but it doesn't mean it's going to be the ending of puvoir for example okay or okay these are different endings in the present tense. So sometimes they end like this. S for S T O N S E Z E N T E N T. Okay. So I drink or I'm drinking. Okay. Now remember what I've just said. Sometimes the endings will look like this. X XT or U and E and E N T okay or like this depending on the verb. So example for pv to be able to for okay to take and for met that would be like that to put. Okay. So composi we know the past participle. So you put the to have auxiliary and you add a past participle. For [Music] example, so I have drunk, you have drank and so on. Remember that this ending is your ending for your future tense which we can start with that if you wanted. Look at that. That's the ending. Okay. the future tense. Let's start with that. You conjugate it using the stem of your verb. However, this time different from the first and second group, you're going to take the whole verb, but you are going to get rid of the e of that verb. Okay? So, you would do the same for example for ome but some highly irregular verb might not follow this pattern at all. So learn uh the most common ones. Okay. Uh so drop the e and here you've got the stem. The same stem will be for the conditional tense. Remember I've just said that. So I will drink and so on. I mean once you get used to it and I would advise you to take a nar verb an verb and the third group verb and try to follow this very pattern and see whether something clicks. Okay. So we're going backwards now. I'm using the same stem as the future for my conditional. And remember the ending they are exactly the same ending as the imperfect tense. So we want to say I would drink. So is your stem and the ending of the imperfect. Okay. As for the amper then the stem and listen really carefully here. The stem is the new form here. Can you see that here? Can you see that? I'm going to drag this stem and I'm going to put it here. Sorry, I was going too far here. Okay, there for the emper. And the same goes for the same stem for the present participle. Okay, so that's your stem, the beginning of the emperor. I used to drink. I was drinking. [Music] Okay. So, all you need to know is that the imperfect and the conditional share the same endings but not the same stem. Okay? And I know what you're thinking. But an Alexa, you make it sound easy, but it's not. And I know it's not. Okay? Uh but at least that's the beginning. Okay? So, we've got that. So what happens when we conjugate in a subjunctive covered the subjunctive in great length in my full course in lesson 30 and the course which is called the complete French course which is followed by hundreds of thousands of people. Okay. So listen very carefully. How do you form the subjunctive? We know that we use the ill form stem present tense for. But when it comes to the third group, the new stem is used for new and vu. Can you see that? the same way as we use the new form for the amper and the new form for the present participle and just I'm listening to myself thinking I how how you know but I hope it makes sense to you okay I hope I'm delivering it as simplistic as I can as simple as I can so subjunctive C and by the way we always use the co in front because that's how it is in a sentence using the subjective etc etc. So you conjugate like this. We know this. Now remember the ending of N and V for subjunct is the same as the amper and it's the same as the conditional. Okay? And the ending for the subjunctive is the same as and I'm going to put it in pink. The ending of the present tense verbs of eer regular group I know what you're thinking. Right. How much of it did you understand or did you watch it in few times like in three parts? I don't know. Now remember there is a super guide attached with this video absolutely for free. So click on here or in the description below. That's it for me. Rabiano and Bizu. And now I'm going to have a nice cup of tea. [Music]