French verbs

When starting to learn French, you may easily get overwhelmed with a huge amount of new information. You do not know which words you need to learn at the moment and which ones you won’t need soon. Our list of the most important French verbs will help you learn the most important words. However, keep in mind that everyone learns French for a specific purpose. Therefore, if you learn French to go to a culinary school, you will need culinary terms.

Instead of learning random words from a list, try to write down in a note book 5 – 10 words that you consider the most useful and memorize them first.

At the beginning, when you are not very much familiar with verb conjugation, it is not recommended to learn the verbs in infinitive. It is more useful to learn 1-st person singular conjugation form in Present. This verb form is very common so you could use it if necessary. This won’t happen when you keep in mind only infinitive verb form.

See also:: French audio lessons.

Also, some other verb forms in present tense coincide with 1 person singular present tense and this will help you understand the meaning of this verb when you hear it in a different form. For instance:

Group 1 verbs, for example: the verb parler – to speak:

Group 2 verbs, for example: the verb finir – to finish:

Group 3 verbs, for example: the verb faire — do:

The most important French verbs: