📖 Present Tense

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📘 Définition

The present tense is the most commonly used tense in French. It expresses an action happening now, a habit, a general truth, or a repeated action.

✏ Exemple

I do my homework. • We eat at noon. • The Earth revolves around the Sun.

🧠 À retenir

I speak • You speak • He speaks • We speak • You speak • They speak

✅ Points clés

  • • The present tense expresses an action happening now.
  • • It can also express a habit.
  • • It is used for general truths.
  • • Different verb groups have different endings.
  • • Irregular verbs must be memorized.

❌ Erreurs fréquentes

  • • Mixing up verb endings.
  • • Forgetting the correct ending for the subject.
  • • Misconjugating irregular verbs.

💡 Astuce

Identify the verb group first, then apply the correct endings.