First of all we need the French personal pronouns, most of them you have already seen in the previous chapters, here you find them all at a glance.
French personal pronouns
je
I
1st person singular
tu
you
2nd person singular
il
he
3rd person singular masculine
elle
she
3rd person singular feminine
nous
we
1st person plural
vous
you
2nd person plural
ils
they (masculine)
3rd person plural masculine
elles
they (feminine)
3rd person plural feminine
When discussing the conjugation of French verbs we first have to have a look at the classification of verbs, there are regular verbs (verbes réguliers), that follow a certain pattern and irregular verbs (verbes irréguliers), that do not follow this pattern. Of course, most of the verbs are regular. And even within the irregulars there are certain patterns. For the irregular ones there are verb tables that are quite useful and we recommend to get one of these, that will help enormously in the future. There are about 2000 verbs and 80 patterns, so there are not too many of them.
Now the big question: How to recognise a verb? Well, usually they have certain endings. There are three different typical verb endings in French: -er, -ir, -re.
