Warm-up: Read the comic about school. Translate as much as possible

French verb groups In French there are 5 verb groups -er (You already know how to conjugate) -ir -re Stem-changing (verbs that have regular endings, but spelling changes to the stem) Irregular ( you know some of the most common, like etre, aller, faire, and avoir)

Notes on –re verbs Remember: You already are familiar with the 1st verb group, -er verbs. You know how to conjugate regular –er verbs by removing the “er”. Next, you take the stem, and add the endings e, es, e, ons, ez, ent Example: je regarde nous regardons tu regardes vous regardez il, elle, on regarde ils, elles regardent

-re verbs cont. Now we are going to add a second type of regular verb group (the smallest group), verbs ending in –re. Just like with –er verbs, you are going to take off the last 2 letters, and then add endings. However, the pattern of endings are different, s, s, nothing, ons, ez, ent

Example –re verb attendre- to wait for Take of the ending: attendre, stem= attend J’ attends nous attendons Tu attends vous attendez Il, elle, on attend ils, elles attendent

Other –re verbs conjugated the same way Entendre- to hear Perdre- to lose Vendre- to sell Rendre- to return, to give back (like in English render) Répondre (à)- to answer, to answer to (like in English respond) Rendre visite à- to visit (someone) Note: you can use the verb visiter to say you’re visiting a place, but to say your visiting a person, you have to use rendre visite à. So, “vous visitez Paris”, but “vous rendez visite à votre grand-mère”

Practice Use the same pattern we used to conjugate attendre to conjugate perdre- to lose Stem= Je Nous Tu Vous Il, elle on ils, elles