What are the 6 forms of être?

What are the forms of être?

How many être verbs are there?

Most verbs use avoir as their helping verb, but there are 17 that use être. Before going any further, let's recap the conjugation of être in the present tense, since you'll need it for these verbs in the passé composé.

What are the 13 être verbs?

Is faire être or avoir?

The French verbs avoir ("to have"), être ("to be") and faire ("to do or make") are the three most used and, thus, most important verbs in the French language. They are used in some of the ways that we do in English as well as in many idiomatic expressions.

Être (to be) in 5 Main French Tenses

What are être verbs in French?

Être is one of the two most important French verbs (avoir is the other one) and has irregular conjugations in just about every tense and mood. Être literally means "to be," but also serves as an auxiliary verb and is the key to the passive voice.

What is the meaning of être?

Être (pronounced: ay-tr, with a soft 'r' at the end) is used to indicate how things are. Literally meaning 'to be', être can be conjugated with the various French subject pronouns, paired with adjectives or used in numerous idiomatic expressions. Each French pronoun requires a different conjugation of the verb être.

What is the infinitive of être?

In French the near future is formed with the present tense conjugation of the verb aller (to go) + the infinitive (être). Je vais être étudiant. I am going to be a student.

What is the third person plural form of the verb être?

Vous êtes. You are (formal or plural) 3rd person. Ils sont. Elles sont.

How do you use être in a sentence?

Why do we use être?

For starters, on their own, the verb être means “to be” and the verb avoir means “to have.” These two verbs are used in this simple sense to say things like je suis professeur (I am a teacher) or elle a une tasse (she has a cup).

What's your name is French?

If you'd like to say “What is your name?” in French, you generally have two options. To pose the question formally, you'd say “Comment vous-appelez vous? Speaking informally, you can simply ask “Comment t'appelles-tu?”

Is Dr Mrs Vandertramp avoir or être?

Application in French

Well, the VANDERTRAMP verbs use être as opposed to avoir when placed into the past tense. From the list of verbs above, the past participle is the word you would use after correctly conjugating être.

How many Vandertramp verbs are there?

There is another version of the Mrs Vandertramp mnemonic which I learned at school: the less memorably named Mrs Daventramp, who just includes a letter for each of the thirteen basic verbs, missing out any which are the same with an added prefix.

How do you write the past tense of être?

The passé composé of 17 verbs is formed by combining the present tense of être (je suis, tu es, il est, nous sommes, vous êtes, ils sont) and then adding the past participle of the verb showing the action.

What are the 17 passé composé être verbs?

What are the Dr and Mrs Vandertramp verbs?

Dr. Mrs. Vandertramp verbs apply to the passé composé, a French verb tense that is used to talk about the past. As its name (which translates to “composed past”) suggests, the passé composé is made up of two parts: the auxiliary verb and the past participle of the lexical verb.

How do you remember Mrs P Vandertramp?

Also known as Dr Mrs. Vandertrampp or even La Maison d'Etre, Dr Mrs P. Vandertramp is an acronym that is often taught to French students to help them remember which verbs use « être » as a helping verb when conjugating verbs in the passé composé tense.

What category of verbs always takes the auxiliary être?

Intransitive verbs of movement – when the following verbs are used intransitively*, they require être as their auxiliary: And their derivatives… * Intransitively = without a direct object. Most of these verbs can only be intransitive, so they always require être as the auxiliary.