Le chef : voir, boire, croire and faire in present, the imperative
I can use a range of irregular present tense verbs to describe people's roles at work and I can recognise the imperative.
Le chef : voir, boire, croire and faire in present, the imperative
I can use a range of irregular present tense verbs to describe people's roles at work and I can recognise the imperative.
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Key learning points
- The verbs voir (to see), boire (to drink), croire (to believe) and faire (to do, make) are irregular in the present.
- The imperative is used to give instructions, commands or advice to one or more people.
- The imperative exists in the second person singular (tu), first person plural (nous) and second person plural (vous).
- [ai] sounds like 'vrai', [oi] sounds like 'voir' and [oy] sounds like envoyer.
Keywords
Imperative - a mood used to tell somebody to do something or give instructions or commands
Irregular verb - a verb that does not follow the regular rules
Common misconception
The same imperative form of a verb is used for both 'tu' and 'vous'.
There are separate imperative forms for 'tu' and 'vous' which must be used in exactly the same way as in conversation i.e. formal or information situations and singular and plural subjects.
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