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      • The French Imperative

      The French Imperative

      • Date January 4, 2016

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      This week we’re going to show how to conjugate the French imperative. This mood is used to give orders, make requests and recommendations, express desires, and offer advice.

      Conjugating the Imperative

      The imperative only exists in tu, nous, and vous forms. The conjugations are mostly identical to their simple present tense counterparts, with some exceptions that we’ll note below. Unlike other tenses and moods, subject pronouns are not used in conjunction with the imperative.

      –ER Verbs and –IR Verbs Conjugated like –ER Verbs

      The nous and vous imperatives of regular, stem-changing, and spelling change –ER verbs are the same as the simple present forms. The tu form is based on the simple present but loses the final –s in the imperative. Irregular –IR verbs that follow regular –ER conjugation rules in the simple present also follow –ER rules in the imperative.

      Pronoun Parler

      to speak

      Geler

      to freeze

      Aller

      to go

      Cueillir

      to pick

      Tu parle gèle va cueille
      Nous parlons gelons allons cueillons
      Vous parlez gelez allez cueillez

      –IR Verbs and –RE Verbs

      Except for a handful of irregular verbs (see below) and those irregular –IR verbs that are conjugated like regular –ER verbs (see above), most regular and irregular –IR and –ER verbs follow regular present tense conjugation rules in the imperative.

      Pronoun Choisir

      to choose

      Descendre

      to descend

      Faire

      to make/do

      Tu choisis descends fais
      Nous choisissons descendons faisons
      Vous choisissez descendez faites

      Irregular –IR and –RE Imperatives

      The following verbs are irregular in the imperative:

      Pronoun Avoir

      to have

      Être

      to be

      Savoir

      to know

      Vouloir

      to want

      Tu aie sois sache veuille
      Nous ayons soyons sachons

      —

      Vous ayez soyez sachez veuillez

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