CHAPTER III. TERMINATIONS WHICH ARE COMMON TO VARIOUS TENSES. It will be seen from the foregoing that 20. All regular verbs, also irregular of the two classes and the two auxiliary verbs avoir and être, have the same terminations in the following tenses: a) The Imperfect Indicative always ends in ais, ais, ait, ions, iez, aient; terminations which are added to the stem of the Present Participle in place of the termination ant. There are only four verbs which form an exception, owing to a change in the root. b) The Future always ends by — Auxiliary être } erai, eras, era, erons erez, eront. 1st Conjugation 21. All regular verbs and irregular of the two classes always end NOTE 1) These verbs belong to the dead or ancient conjugation, with a simple stem, and therefore they are irregular. See them, Parts III. and IV. 2) The Present Indicative of these verbs really belong to the 1st regular conjugation. 22. All regular verbs of this conjugation end in the Infinitive by the above terminations, endre, andre, ondre, ordre, erdre. 23. Prendre (to take) and its compounds makes an exception, and they are irregular, but they end by ds in the 1st person singular of the Present Indicative. So it is for coudre (to sew) and moudre (to grind) and their compounds. See those verbs for their compounds in Part III. 24. The irregular verbs of the following terminations and their compounds end by s only, instead of ds, at the 1st person singular of the Present Indicative. b) In the Second Person Singular. Except All verbs of the 4th conjugation of which the 1st person singular of the Present Indicative ends by ds, keep ds in the 2d person. All others end by s only. Tu vaincs. The Imperative of verbs of the 1st Conj. c) In the Third Person Singular. Tu équivaux Tu revaux Tu peux Donne aie |