French For Football/Grammar/Verbs/Irregular conjugations

You spend a lot of time in French learning the grammatical rules - there are some verbs which break these rules, and they are listed below, with what they do.

Also see wiktionary:Category:French verbs and wiktionary:fr:Catégorie:Verbes français.

aller-to go
1 The verb aller uses the auxiliary verb être in the passé composé.

venir-to come
The verb tenir and verbs ending in -tenir and -venir also follow this pattern.

1 The verbs venir, devenir, and revenir use the auxiliary verb être in the passé composé.

vouloir-to want
1 The imperative forms veux, voulons, and voulez are rare.

2 The imperative form veuillez is used to make very polite requests. It is most often used on signs and in impersonal writing. (e.g. "Veuillez suivre les instructions ci-dessous.")

Acknowledgments
This page is based on original text from French/Grammar/Verbs/Irregular_conjugations dated 14 September 2008.