King112 Posted March 24, 2015 Report Share Posted March 24, 2015 (edited) So, seeing as I am studying for my French Ab test right now, I thought why not make this a place where we can like put up verbs, conjugate them and help each other out. I'm putting up some basic ones right now because I don't have much time:Etre- Je suis Tu es Il/Elle/On est Nous Sommes Vous etes Ils/Elles ont Faire:Je faisTu faisIl/Elle faitNous faisonsVous faitesIls/Elles font Avoir:J'aiTu asIl/elle aNous avonsVous AvezIls/Elles sont Please add more to this list, whichever level of French you are doing, and please let me know if I have incorrectly conjugated/spelled any of the ones I have done. Let's make this to help us revise, and help other people in the future/present revise.ThanksKing112 Edited March 30, 2015 by King112 3 Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baller97 Posted March 24, 2015 Report Share Posted March 24, 2015 So, seeing as I am studying for my French Ab test right now, I thought why not make this a place where we can like put up verbs, conjugate them and help each other out. I'm putting up some basic ones right now because I don't have much time:Etre- Je suis Tu es Il/Elle/On est Nous Sommes Vous etes Ils/Elles ont Faire:Je faitTu faisIl/Elle faitNous faisonsVous faitesIls/Elles font Avoir:J'aiTu asIl/elle aNous avonsVous AvezIls/Elles sont Please add more to this list, whichever level of French you are doing, and please let me know if I have incorrectly conjugated/spelled any of the ones I have done. Let's make this to help us revise, and help other people in the future/present revise.ThanksKing112Aller - Je vaisTu vasIl/Elle vaNous allonsVous allez Ils/Elles vont Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mac117 Posted March 24, 2015 Report Share Posted March 24, 2015 (edited) I'm not in French Ab Initio, but I'm currenly doing French as my IGCSE subject and I've studied it for the last 4 years. I thought it would be good to add some irregular verbs: Asseoir (to seat, sit) J'assiedsTu assiedsIl assiedNous asseyonsVous asseyezIls/Elles asseyent Boire (to drink) Je boisTu boisIl/Elle/On boitNous buvonsVous buvezIls/Elles boivent Connaître (to know) Je connaisTu connaisIl connaîtNous connaissonsVous connaissezIls/Elles connaissent Devoir (to have to) Je doisTu doisIl/Elle doitNous devonsVous devezIls/Elles doivent Partir (to leave) Je parsTu parsIl/Elle partNous partonsVous partezIls/Elles partent Those are the good ones to remeber; I can add more if you want to Edit: I wrote the conjugation for the verb connaître twice - silly me. Edited March 25, 2015 by mac117 Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mac117 Posted March 25, 2015 Report Share Posted March 25, 2015 Oh, and I think I found somee mistake in your conjugations King. In Être it's : "Ils/Elles sont" not "ont". And the other way around in Avoir: "Ils/Elles ont" not "sont", as it's the form of the verb Être.Lastly, in the verb faire, the first person singular is conjugated as "je fais" not "je fait" (fait is only for the third person singular ). Hope I helped! Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
King112 Posted March 25, 2015 Author Report Share Posted March 25, 2015 Oh, and I think I found somee mistake in your conjugations King. In Être it's : "Ils/Elles sont" not "ont". And the other way around in Avoir: "Ils/Elles ont" not "sont", as it's the form of the verb Être.Lastly, in the verb faire, the first person singular is conjugated as "je fais" not "je fait" (fait is only for the third person singular ). Hope I helped!Made the corrections, thanks man. And Baller, thanks for posting, let's see if we can make this a really useful study guide for all us IB/ Pre IB students Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blackcurrant Posted March 25, 2015 Report Share Posted March 25, 2015 Another small correction King112 -- Je fais (with an "s") A really good idea, making a verb list. So, seeing as I am studying for my French Ab test right now, I thought why not make this a place where we can like put up verbs, conjugate them and help each other out. I'm putting up some basic ones right now because I don't have much time:Etre- Je suis Tu es Il/Elle/On est Nous Sommes Vous etes Ils/Elles ont Faire:Je faitTu faisIl/Elle faitNous faisonsVous faitesIls/Elles font Avoir:J'aiTu asIl/elle aNous avonsVous AvezIls/Elles sont Please add more to this list, whichever level of French you are doing, and please let me know if I have incorrectly conjugated/spelled any of the ones I have done. Let's make this to help us revise, and help other people in the future/present revise.ThanksKing112 Je fais... Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mac117 Posted March 25, 2015 Report Share Posted March 25, 2015 L'imparfait Imparfait is an important past tense in french - it is used very often, especially in everyday language. How to form the imparfait: 1. Take the "nous" form of your verb in a present tense. Nous passsons 2. Eliminate the -ons part of the verb, so you're left with the stem only. Nous pass 3. Now that you have the stem, add the following endings to your verb. Je passaisTu passaisIl passaitNous passionsVous passiezIls/Elles passaient The only verb that has a different conjugation is the verb être:J'étaisTu étaisIl/Elle/On étaitNous étionsVous étiezIls/Elles étaient The usage of imparfait: 1. It is used to describe how things used to be/were in the past. For example: Quand j'étais petit, j'avais les cheveux très courts. (When I was younger, I used to have very short hair.) 2. To talk about repetetive activities in the past (that happened every day, once a week etc. but more than ONCE) For example: On allait toujours au bord de la mer. (We went to the seaside everyday.) 3. To talk what we were doing when something happened. For example:Je regardais la télé quand le téléphone a sonné. (I was watching television when the phone rang.) 4. To talk about the circumstances of an event (time, weather). For example:Quelle heure était-it? (What time was it?)Il faisait beau. (The weather was nice.) The negative: To build the negative of a verb in imparfait, simply add ​ne … pas between the verb. For example:Je ne parlais pas. (I wasn't talking.) I hope this helped some of you, please tell me if something is unclear and I will modify it in order to make it more understandable. Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
King112 Posted March 31, 2015 Author Report Share Posted March 31, 2015 (edited) More verbs! Yay! Thank me later (Kidding) Descendre (to Go down)Je descendsTu descends Il/Elle/on descendNous descendons Vous descendez Ils/Elles descendent Ouvrir (To open) J’ouvreTu ouvresIl/Elle/On ouvreNous ouvrons Vous ouvrez Ils/Elles ouvrent Thats all for now, To everyone else, If this helps you, PLEASE add verbs or like Mac117 has add grammar rules, I can't add everything myself (though I will do as many as I can). This should be like a revision doc for everyoneTHANKS! Edited March 31, 2015 by King112 Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
turtle turtle Posted May 7, 2015 Report Share Posted May 7, 2015 This sounds incredibly stupid, but what's ab initio and how's it different to language B lol? Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
turtle turtle Posted May 7, 2015 Report Share Posted May 7, 2015 vouloirje veuxtu veuxil veutnous voulonsvous voulezils veulent pouvoirje peuxtu peuxil peutnous pouvonsvous pouvezils peuvent Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ossih Posted May 7, 2015 Report Share Posted May 7, 2015 This sounds incredibly stupid, but what's ab initio and how's it different to language B lol? You can take a subject in Group 2 at 3 levels:Language B HLLanguage B SLLanguage Ab Initio Ab initio is for complete beginners to the language. Language B SL is for those with good prior exposure to the language, and B HL is for those with very good prior exposure to the language. The difference between Ab Initio and B is quite a lot, as you might imagine. Ab Initio teaches you basic vocab, and common verb tenses, but in language B, there's no prescribed vocab or tenses, it's kinda everything. Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rosalina Posted May 7, 2015 Report Share Posted May 7, 2015 (edited) I'm French SL! I'll share some of my irregular verbs lists Dire(to say,to tell) je distu disil/elle/on ditnous disonsvous ditesils/elles disent Mourir (to die) je meurstu meursil/elle/on meurtnous mourons Naitre (To be born) je naistu naisil/elle/on naitnous naissonsvous naissezils/elles naisentvous mourezils/elles meurent (Mourir and naitre are important verbs for past tense! Dire is a verb that shows up a lot) Edited May 7, 2015 by Rosalina Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
turtle turtle Posted May 8, 2015 Report Share Posted May 8, 2015 This sounds incredibly stupid, but what's ab initio and how's it different to language B lol? You can take a subject in Group 2 at 3 levels:Language B HLLanguage B SLLanguage Ab Initio Ab initio is for complete beginners to the language. Language B SL is for those with good prior exposure to the language, and B HL is for those with very good prior exposure to the language. The difference between Ab Initio and B is quite a lot, as you might imagine. Ab Initio teaches you basic vocab, and common verb tenses, but in language B, there's no prescribed vocab or tenses, it's kinda everything. ahh right thanks, my school doesn't offer ab initio as doing languages is compulsory right through high school Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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