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HomeAcademics & The Arts ArticlesLanguage & Language Arts ArticlesLearning Languages ArticlesFrench ArticlesHow to Conjugate the Irregular French Verbs Prendre, Apprendre, and ComprendreByVeronique Mazet Updated2016-03-26 14:59:25From the bookFrench Grammar For DummiesShare

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The French verbs prendre (to take),apprendre (to learn), and comprendre (to understand) may come in handy to you. How can you say that you don’t understand if you can’t conjugate comprendre? Both apprendre and comprendre are derived from prendre and have the same irregular pattern of conjugation.

Here’s how you conjugate prendre in present, and by extension the same way you conjugate apprendre and comprendre.

1. Drop the -dre of the infinitive to get the stem pren-.

2. Add the appropriate ending for the subject: -ds, -ds, -d, -ons, -ez, or -nent.

The stem pren- is pronounced in a nasal way as long as no vowel follows it (that is, for the je, tu, il/elle, and ils/elles forms). With the vowels of the nous and vous endings (-ons and -ez), pren- is not nasal any more.

The following tables give you the complete present tense conjugation of prendre, apprendre, and comprendre.

je prends	nous prenons
tu prends	vous prenez
il/elle/on prend	ils/elles prennent

j’apprends	nous apprenons
tu apprends	vous apprenez
il/elle/on apprend	ils/elles apprennent

je comprends	nous comprenons
tu comprends	vous comprenez
il/elle/on comprend	ils/elles comprennent

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French Grammar For Dummies

About the book author:

Véronique Mazet has a doctorate in French from the University of Texas at Austin and is the author of two successful grammar books. She currently teaches French at Austin Community College in Austin, Texas.

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