A1The 50 Essential Verbs
The verbs you need every day, grouped by families, with their present tense.
Fifty verbs cover most of what you say in a day. This course teaches them in three steps: the ten pillars (être, avoir, aller, faire, dire, pouvoir, vouloir, savoir, venir, devoir), twenty regular -er verbs with their small traps (j’achète, j’appelle, nous mangeons), and twenty irregular verbs learned by families (prendre, partir, finir, attendre).
Lessons
- 1
The ten pillars: être, avoir, aller, faire…
The ten verbs you use in almost every sentence, and their present tense.
- 2
Twenty everyday -er verbs
One pattern, twenty verbs: parler, habiter, travailler, chercher, trouver… and their small traps.
- 3
Twenty irregular verbs you cannot avoid
Prendre, mettre, voir, partir, finir, attendre… grouped by families so that they stick.
Final assessment
Ten questions drawn from the whole course. Score 70% or more to earn your certificate.
What you will be able to do
- 01Conjugate the ten most used verbs
- 02Conjugate any regular -er verb
- 03Conjugate twenty common irregular verbs
- 04Choose between savoir and connaître
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