Subject
The subject is the person or thing that does the action of the verb.
There is an easy way to find the subject of a sentence. First, find the verb. Then ask: “who + verb” or “what + verb”. The answer to that question will be your subject.
A subject is a noun (Camille, flower, room…) or a pronoun (I, you, they…).
It can be a person, a thing, a place, an idea…
What is verb conjugation?
In French, the verb must be conjugated with respect to its subject.
The conjugation is the way a subject changes a verb so they match (or agree).
In English, the conjugation of verbs is quite simple. The verbs don’t change much (I, you, we, they speak – he, she, it speaks) except for the verb to be (I am, you are, he is).
It is not so in French, where the verb form changes with almost each different person.
Some verbs are called “regular” because they follow a predictable conjugation pattern (such as adding an “s” to the 3rd person singular in English), some are called “irregular” because their conjugation pattern is not predictable (like the verb “to be” in English).
Verb Groups
In French, verbs can be grouped into three different groups.
FIRST GROUP: all verbs when INFINITIVE is finished by -ER except ALLER.
Particularity: this is the most regular group because the radical does not change during the conjugation: AIMER: aim-e; aim-ons; aim-ent).
SECOND GROUP: all verbs finished by -IR (verbs with infinitive in -IR and present participle in -ISSANT).
This is a regular group. Those verbs always use a double radical. One for the singular and the second one for plural persons: fin-is; finiss-ons).
THIRD GROUP: here are all the irregular verbs. Can be divided into three main sub-category:
1. verbs in -IR (like MOURIR: mour-ant; mour-ons);
2. verbs in -OIR (like RECEVOIR: recev-ant; recev-ons);
3. verbs in -RE (like RENDRE: rend-ant; rend-ons);
4. ALLER even if it terminated by -ER
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