NOTE DE GRAMMAIRE – RE verbs!
You’ve already learned about – ER and – IR verbs in French. Now we will add another group of verbs to our repertoire: – RE verbs
What is an “-RE” verb?? __a regular verb that ends in -RE__
Here is how we conjugate – RE verbs.
We drop off the ___RE __ from the infinitive and add…..
Exemple: Attendre (to wait for)
J’attends Nous attendons
Tu attends Vous attendez
Il/elle/on attend– Ils/elles attendent
VENDRE
je vends nous attendons
tu attends vous attendez
il/elle/on attend– ils/elles attendent
(Here are two catchy songs to help you remember the RE verb endings! To the tune of Frère Jacques and Mary had a Little Lamb (which we do in class))
Even this song- RE verbs to the tune of Frozen lol!
All regular – RE verbs will follow this pattern. So you can conjugate all these verbs in the present tense now as well:
Entendre: to hear
Perdre: to lose
Répondre à: to answer
Vendre: to sell
Rendre: to return
Rendre visite à: to visit someone
Exercice: Complete these sentences with the correct form of the – re verb:
1/ Tu _________ ton livre! (perdre)
2/ Nous ____________ des écouteurs ici. (vendre)
3/ Vous ____________ le bus? (attendre)
4/ Elle ____________ visite à sa grand-mère ce week-end. (rendre)
5/ Je ____________ toujours mes crayons de couleur. (perdre)
6/ Ils ________________ à mes emails! (répondre)