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What what are some verbs I should know that are very important in French? I am a beginner learner.​

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être - to be. This is one of the most important verbs in French. It is also used to form compound tenses that go with reflexive verbs, and many common verbs of motion. For example 'I have gone' can be formed 'je suis allé'... (literally 'I am gone').

avoir - to have. Avoir is also used for

many common idiomatic expressions

forming past tenses (compound tenses like 'I have eaten, we had spoken, she has danced ...). For this reason the earlier you learn the conjugations of avoir the quicker you will master the compound past tenses.

to say how old someone is: e.g. 'j'ai trente ans' which literally means 'I have thirty years', which would be 'I am thirty years old' in English.

French speakers 'have cold' or have heat' rather than are cold/hot/ hungry etc.

Likewise a French person would not say, "I am hungry", but would say, "I have hunger," which is j'ai faim.

aller - to go, an especially important verb because it is also very commonly used for phrases like 'going to' as in 'he is going to jump,' 'you are going to read'. This is like a form of future tense, and is easier to form than the future tense, because after the word going you can plug in ANY infinitive verb. This is easier than learning all the endings of the future tenses for all verbs, so when you are starting out this is a powerful tool, that is extremely common in French - just as it is in English.

tenir - to hold. Many other verbs are derived from tenir and conjugated in the same way ... like soutenir (to support).

venir - to come. Besides being used to describe the verb 'to come', venir is also used to make expressions like 'I have just arrived', which is 'je viens d'arriver'. Literally it translates as I come to arrive, meaning I have just arrived. So any time you 'have just' done something you can use venir de.

faire - to make or to do. Dozens and dozens of idiomatic expressions are formed with faire.

vouloir - to want. This is one of the modal verbs, and a most useful verb to conquer and know because you can plug any other infinitive of any verb after it, allowing you to make lots of phrases. Every new infinitive verb you learn can be plugged on to the end of any conjugation of vouloir, making it an extremely powerful verb. Other modal verbs like this are - devoir and pouvoir.

devoir - to have to. This is also a useful and versatile modal verb, and you can plug any infinitive on to it, making it easy to use.

pouvoir - to be able to. Like the fellow modal verbs devoir and vouloir it is easy to use because you can string any infinitive on to the end and have yourself a useful phrase...

dire - to say

Step-by-step explanation:

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Answer:

Parler

Chanter

Danser

Aller

Etre

Avoir

Pouvoir

Faire

Parler

Step-by-step explanation:

I am taking french 2 and these are the basic verbs.

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