french verb morphology

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Permalink Reply by Neil Coffey on December 21, 2011 at 11:31am

You can type pretty much any French verb into the site's French verb conjugator (see green box on this page : http://www.french-linguistics.co.uk/grammar/ ) and get a list of the forms of that verb from the point of view of the spelling.

Did you need something more technical than that, and if so, can you give any more indication of what kind of information you're looking for?

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Permalink Reply by Razan Mustafa on March 19, 2012 at 7:40pm

je fais un reserch sur ( french verb morphology ) but need an informaiton from books or doc if u know tell me plz

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Permalink Reply by Charles D on March 21, 2012 at 4:30am

If by 'morphology' you mean verbs conjugated in all their forms, Baron's Educational Series, Inc. published a very helpful book simply titles "501 French Verbs."  Most good bookstores stock it in their "Foreign Language" sections where the dictionaries are.  I have the second edition (that's how old I am) and it has helped me a great deal in learning the tenses and idiomatic expressions.

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Permalink Reply by Neil Coffey on March 21, 2012 at 6:58am

I reviewed 501 French Verbs a little while ago and the only thing I'd say is that this depends a bit on your perspective. It's a good book for certain styles of learning.

The thing it doesn't encourage you to do is be analytical and "see the wood for the trees". Rather, it presents as being "separate entities" a huge number of verbs that actually work in precisely the same way. This won't suit more analytical learners.

It also contains a section on pronunciation which pretty much breaks records in the number of factually nonsense statements it achieves per square centimetre of paper. On the other hand, you can just tear this section out and concentrate on the verb conjugations-- I'm not quite sure what it's doing there in the first place.

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