Our final set of irregular verbs in the present tense will be covered today.
On today's show
Today we'll cover sortir, partir and venir, but in addition to venir you will also get revenir and devenir for free!
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Vous partez ma maison.
Elle sort avec des amies.
Ils viennent en Ecosse.
Posted by: Anna | April 25, 2006 at 02:52 PM
Verbs are fine Anna, but you can't use 'partir' like this. You could say 'vous partez à huit heures' or somethng similar.
Posted by: Vivien | April 25, 2006 at 06:10 PM
Cool, merci!
Posted by: Anna | April 25, 2006 at 08:16 PM
Je pars le collége aprés les examens.
Il sort avec sa famille.
Tu viens au cinéma.
Posted by: Andrea | April 25, 2006 at 08:51 PM
Je pars de chez moi a huit heures et demie pour l'ecole.
Florence sort tous les weekends.
Elles viennent diner chez nous samedi soir.
:)
p.s. Working now on a PC. Accents difficult to do!
Posted by: Alison | April 25, 2006 at 09:11 PM
Andrea, your verbs are fine too, but like Anna you have used 'partir' in the wrong way - French people would say 'je quitte le collège après les examens'
The main thing is that 'partir' doesn't take a direct object, so you can use it to say "I leave at 8 o o'clock', but not 'I leave the house'. Does that make sense?
Posted by: Vivien | April 25, 2006 at 09:24 PM
Je sors avec mes copines.
Je pars a onze heures et demie.
Elle vient a neuf heures.
Hope these are ok.
:-)
Posted by: Heather | April 25, 2006 at 09:25 PM
Heather, excellent, apart from the lack of accents... ;) Thought we'd sorted out the accents so there shouldn't be any excuses!
Posted by: Mark | April 25, 2006 at 09:27 PM
Fine Alison, apart from the lack of accents..... But I do know how much harder they are on a PC!!!!
Posted by: Vivien | April 25, 2006 at 09:28 PM
Tu pars à neuf heures et quart.
Je sors avec mes copines tous les samedis.
Nous venons à midi.
Posted by: Laurin | April 25, 2006 at 10:16 PM
Excellent Laurin!
Posted by: Vivien | April 25, 2006 at 10:19 PM
je sors avec ma petite copine au cinéma
tu viens trop tard le soir dernier.
ils partent à neuf heures
Posted by: gavin | April 26, 2006 at 04:26 PM
Verbs are fine Gavin, but you can't use the present tense of the verb when you are talking about yesterday evening! (which would in any case be 'hier soir') - do you see what I mean?
Posted by: Vivien | April 26, 2006 at 08:21 PM
Elle part quand elle est appelée.
Je sors avec ma soeur quelquefois.
Vous venez tous les jours.
sorry it's a bit late my computer stopped working but it's fine now!!
Posted by: Tamsin | April 26, 2006 at 09:05 PM
Well done Tamsin!
Posted by: Vivien | April 26, 2006 at 09:09 PM
vous venez trop tard tout les soirs
Does that make more sense?
Posted by: gavin | April 27, 2006 at 04:42 PM
Yeah - much better, but watch your spelling - it's 'touS les soirs'.
Posted by: Vivien | April 27, 2006 at 06:14 PM
tu vien la maison
je pars pour au college
ils sortent apres au college
Posted by: Scott Mcglynn | November 01, 2006 at 09:55 PM
je fini mes devoir
j'ai fini mes devoir
tu parles le francais
tu as parles francais
tu vends bonbons
tu as vends bonbons
ils parle l'anglais
ils ont parle l'anglais
Posted by: Scott Mcglynn | November 01, 2006 at 10:01 PM