French Conjugation Practice

Practice conjugating the 100 most common French verbs.

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How French conjugation practice works

French verbs change their ending for each person and tense — je parle, tu parles, nous parlons — and many of those endings sound the same but are spelled differently. That makes writing them correctly its own skill. This drill covers the 100 most common French verbs, including essential irregulars like être, avoir, aller, and faire.

  1. Decide whether to include irregular verbs.
  2. Pick a mood — indicative, subjunctive, or both — and the tenses you want to drill.
  3. Type the correct form for each prompt, using the accent buttons for é, è, ê, ç, and the rest. On a phone, you pick from a short list instead.
  4. Every answer gets instant feedback, and a daily goal keeps track of how long you've practiced.

French tenses you can practice

Present

Je parle — I speak

What's happening now, habits, and general truths. One French present covers both "I speak" and "I'm speaking."

Passé Composé

J'ai parlé — I have spoken

Completed past actions — the everyday spoken past tense.

Passé Composé vs. Imparfait →

Imperfect

Je parlais — I was speaking

Ongoing or repeated past actions, and background description.

Passé Composé vs. Imparfait →

Future

Je parlerai — I will speak

What will happen. In speech, aller + infinitive (je vais parler) is just as common.

Conditional

Je parlerais — I would speak

What would happen, polite requests (je voudrais…), and hypotheticals with si.

Imperative

Parle ! — Speak!

Commands and instructions — Parle ! and Ne parle pas !

Pluperfect

J'avais parlé — I had spoken

An action that had already happened before another past event.

Conditional Perfect

J'aurais parlé — I would have spoken

What would have happened under different circumstances.

Future Perfect

J'aurai parlé — I will have spoken

What will have happened by a certain point.

Passé Simple (Literary)

Je parlai — I spoke

The literary past — completed actions in novels, history, and formal writing. In speech, the passé composé takes its place.

Look up a common French verb

Full conjugation tables for every tense and mood:

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Frequently asked questions

Which French tenses should I learn first?

Start with the present and the passé composé — together they handle most everyday conversation. Add the imparfait next for descriptions and habits in the past, then the future and conditional, which share the same stem (je parlerai, je parlerais).

When does the passé composé use être instead of avoir?

Most verbs take avoir (j'ai parlé). A small group of movement and change-of-state verbs — aller, venir, arriver, partir, naître, mourir, and a few others — plus every reflexive verb take être instead, and their past participle agrees with the subject (elle est allée).

Read: Être vs. Avoir as Auxiliaries →

What's the difference between the passé composé and the imparfait?

The passé composé is for completed events (Hier, j'ai mangé une pizza), while the imparfait is for background, habits, and ongoing actions (Quand j'étais petit, je mangeais beaucoup).

Read: Passé Composé vs. Imparfait →

When do I use the subjunctive in French?

After expressions of wanting, doubt, emotion, and necessity, usually introduced by que — Il faut que tu viennes, Je veux qu'il parte. Choose Subjunctive or Both at the mood step to practice it.

Read: Subjunctive Triggers →

Do I need to learn the passé simple?

It's a literary tense you'll mostly meet in novels and formal writing — in speech, French uses the passé composé instead. It's worth recognizing when you read, even if you'll rarely need to produce it. Select Passé Simple at the tense step to practice it.