How to memorise French verb conjugations

1. Start with the verbs you cannot avoid

Être, avoir, aller and faire turn up constantly, and all four are irregular. Learn their present tense before anything else.

2. One tense at a time

Finish the present before you open the imperfect. Start four tenses on the same day and you have four forms to confuse where there was one.

3. Recall before you look

Cover the table. Say the form, then check. Reading a table trains you to recognise a form. A conversation asks you to produce it.

4. Say it out loud

A form you have only read is slow to say. Say every answer, even when you are alone.

5. Short rounds, every day

Keep a session short enough to do daily. A round in Lexie is five questions: a pronoun, a verb and a tense, and you supply the form.

Published 11 November 2026. The number and verb forms on this page are exported from Lexie itself.