(She pays the babysitter 10 euros an hour)Įlle paye la baby-sitter 10 euros de l’heure.Įither one is correct, although based on some research, as well as personal experience, most people tend to make the stem change. Here’s an example with the -ayer verb payer:Įlle paie la baby-sitter 10 euros de l’heure. (He wants his roommates to clean the bathroom for once.)Įxceptions: -ayer verbs can follow the usual stem-change, or they can keep their “y” in all tenses and with all subjects either one is correct. Infinitive: nettoyer: Il veut que ses colocs nettoient la salle des bains pour une fois. Infinitive: s’ennuyer: Tu ne t’ennuies pas trop ? (You aren’t getting bored?)ģ. Regular verbs that end in -yerġ.Infinitive: envoyer: Envoie-moi un m él.
Let’s take a closer look at the four types of stem-changing verbs. The four types of stem-changing verbs in French There is at least some method to this madness.Īs a general rule, verb stems don’t change for tenses that are formed with or use the participle (example: passé composé), or that are based on a present-tense conjugation that doesn’t change its stem (example: imparfait (which is based on a verb’s present-tense nous conjugation)). Note that for regular verbs that end in é +consonant + -er, changing the stem in the future and conditional tenses is optional. (Remember that verbs with nous or vous as the subject never change their stem.)Īdditionally, most stem-changing verbs’ stems change in the following tenses: You only do it when using certain tenses.Īll French stem-changing verbs’ stems change in the following tenses:
You don’t systematically change the stem of a stem-changing verb.
If you made a sort of circle around all of the times when the stem changes, you’d have a shape similar to a boot or shoe, like so:
Stem changing verbs how to#
Looking at this conjugation, we can also find a tip for how to remember which subjects get a stem change. For the first-person plural ( nous)and the second-person plural/formal ( vous), the stem does not change.įor example, let’s look at how to conjugate envoyer (to send) in the present simple tense: j’envoieĪs you can see, all that hard work at memorizing how to conjugate regular verbs wasn’t lost the stem might change, but the regular -er verb endings still apply. Of course, this applies to any “stand-in” for these pronouns (names, things, etc.), as well. Stem-changing verbs’ stems change for the following subjects: That would be too easy.īut there are some tricks to help you remember when to change them. The spelling of stem-changing verbs doesn’t apply to all subjects and tenses, unfortunately. When do you change the stem of stem changing verbs?
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