N.B. All Verbs ending in er are conjugated like parler. See List of Verbs in ER, at the end of the Accidence, p. 122. *Or, I spoke, or I was speaking, thou wast speaking, &c. It may not be amiss to observe that the French imperfect answere better to the English locution, I was speaking, than to the two others. IRREGULARITIES.* Of some Verbs, of the first Conjugation, ending in yer. With verbs ending in yer the y is changed to i when followed by e mute, and in the imperfect, and in the subjunctive present, ions, iez, come after y. bégayer, to stammer. | aboyer, to bark. effrayer, to frighten. employer, to employ. grasseyer, to lisp. nettoyer, to clean. envoyer, to send. essuyer, to wipe. and persons. to pray. Verbs ending in ier require two i's with those tenses appuyer, to prop. ennuyer, to weary. prier, Je prie, In verbs ending in cer, the c takes the cedilla (ƒ), when coming before a or o, to keep the soft sound of c. Plaçons, plaçais, plaçai, plaçasse, &c. Conjugate, in the same manner, all verbs in cer. With verbs in éer, one e is cancelled before a, o, or i. Agréer. J'agrée. J'agréais. J'agréai. | J'agréerai. | Que j'agrée. to accept. Jagréions. | agréons. Participle. Agréé, m. agréée, f. agréions. After the same manner are conjugated the following verbs : Créer, to create; récréer, to recreate; suppléer, to supply. The learner need not take notice of the following irregularities until he han once been over the regular verbs. The future is usually pronounced pé-rai. In verbs ending in ger, the e is kept when an o or an In verbs ending in eler and eter, the 7 and ₺ are doubled before e. Appeler,*J'appelle.* | J'appelais. | J'appellerai. J'appelais. J'appellerai. | Que j'appelle. to call. appelons. &c. &c. appelions. After the same manner conjugate the following:— Atteler, to put horses to; amonceler, to heap up; étinceler, to sparkle; &c. Except the following, which, instead of doubling the 1, take a grave accent over the e. After the same manner : Projeter, to project; cacheter, to seal. Except acheter, to buy, and colleter, to collar, which make, j'achète, achetons, ils achètent, and not ils achettent. Verbs having the two last syllables formed by two unaccented e's between a consonant, require a grave accent on the first e. Ex.: Dépecer, Semer, to carve, to sow, Mener, to lead, which makes je dépèce. je sème. je mène. je sèvre. And even when the penultimate e has an acute accent: Therefore we pronounce app-ler, and ā pēll; also j-tër and je jett. In verbs in guer, a diæresis (..) is placed over the e to mark that the preceding vowel is to be sounded. Ex.:— Arguer, to argue, j'arguë, j'arguërai. EXERCISE ON THE FIRST CONJUGATION. D. I speak* French and English. Français Anglais. She sweeps the room. balayer* chambre, f. You attack me.t We add all these numbers together. They ajouter nombres ensemble. They were putting the horses to. atteler * She chattered instead of babiller au lieu deş cleaning the house. They yawned all the day long. G. I shall fold them. plier les, E. honneurs. H. I should me our gowns if we did not robes * c D. I have dressed my little child's head. coiffer c E. We had overwhelmed them with kindness. combler, pl. les|| de bienfaits. I shall have finished my lesson | by the time you return achever f. quand from reviendrez If I had not been here, they would have dashed the * See Indicative pres. of parler, balayer, &c. which is parle, balaie, &c., by cutting off the r. + See Table of Personal Pronouns. See Remark VIII. p. 29. See note, p. 33. See Remark III., p. 29. |