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past participle french essayer

In this video tutorial lesson you will learn the French word for to try, the present tense conjugation and also provide some example sentences. In the infinitive or mother form the verb is “Essayer”. However, when we conjugate verb we need to delete the “Y” and use an “I”. This is because the French language has evolved over time and the modern language an I is now used. Essayer = To Try j’essaie tu essaies il/elle/on essaie nous essayons vous essayez ils/elles essaient You’ll notice that for the nous, vous and iles/elles pronouns the “S” is linked to the first letter of Essayer. This is because the first letter of the verb is a vowel and leaving out that S sound would not sound good to the French year. Example phrases: Practice the sentences and it will help you to get used to using the verb to try. J’essaie d’apprendre le Français. (I try to learn French.) Tu essaies de perdre du poids. (You try to lose weight.) On essaie d’aller plus vite. (We try to go faster.) Ils essaient d’arriver à l’heure. (They try to arrive on time.) Back To Main Verbs Page | Next Lesson: Jouer – To Play.
As discussed on the previous page, French verbs form their future tense by adding endings to the future stem, which in most cases (even for irregular verbs) is the infinitive. However, a few verbs have irregular future stems, as listed in the table below. (Clicking on one of the infinitives in this table will open a new tab or window with a complete verb table for that verb, showing the full conjugation of the future tense.) VerbFuture tense êtreje serai, tu seras etc avoirj'aurai, tu auras etc -evoir: devoir, recevoir, décevoir etcje devrai etc; je recevrai etc, je décevrai etc venir, tenir (and compounds)je viendrai etc; je tiendrai etc voir and compoundsje verrai etc allerj'irai etc faire (and compounds)je ferai etc pouvoirje pourrai etc savoirje saurai etc vouloirje voudrai etc falloir, valoiril faudra; il vaudra etc pleuvoiril pleuvra mouvoir and compoundsje mouvrai etc mourirje mourrai (s')asseoirje m'assiérai etc, or je m'assoirai etc cueillir, accueillirj'accueillerai etc quérir and derived verbs: acquérir, conquérir etcj'acquérrai etc Notice that even in the case of these irregular future stems, the future tense endings are always preceded by an r.  French grammar index  French-English dictionary  English-French dictionary This page written by Neil Coffey. Copyright © Javamex UK 2014. All rights reserved.
Conjugations of the English verb try can be found below. To conjugate any other English or French verb you can use the search box on the top of the page. Click the translation icon to translate each conjugation. To help you learn this verb you can test yourself on its conjugation. Do this by clicking on the yellow Test button on the top right.