Free French Verb Conjugation Quiz
Practice French verb conjugation online, one form at a time, in any of 13 tenses, from the présent (je parle) and the passé composé (j'ai parlé) to the subjunctive. Pick the tenses and the verbs, type each form and press Enter, and the quiz marks it right or wrong at once, accents included. Keep going as long as you like, then retry only the forms you missed. It's free, needs no signup and works on a phone.
Untick a box to leave those verbs out. A verb is in the quiz when it matches a ticked box in each column. A column with nothing ticked keeps all its verbs.
How the French conjugation quiz works
You set it up in two steps. First tick the tenses you want, from the same 13 as the worksheets. None are ticked when the page opens, and “Tick all” ticks every one. Each tense shows an example in plain English, such as “j'ai parlé · I spoke, I have spoken” for the passé composé, so you can choose without knowing the grammar names. Then narrow the verbs, or leave every box empty for all 600. The Verb group boxes follow the way French teachers sort verbs: regular -er verbs like parler, -er verbs with a spelling change (manger → nous mangeons, appeler → j'appelle), -ir verbs like finir (nous finissons) and the 3rd group, which holds everything else, from être and aller to prendre and attendre. The Special features boxes pick out verbs that take être in the passé composé (je suis allé), verbs always used with se (je me souviens), or “None of these” (parler, finir, faire: j'ai parlé). Ticks in one group add up, and groups narrow each other. A group with nothing ticked keeps all its verbs. Tick 3rd group and être together, and you get the irregular verbs that take être.
Press “Start the quiz” and it asks for one form at a time, such as “nous · aller · passé composé”, with the English meaning underneath. Type the form and press Enter, or Check. It's marked at once, and a wrong answer shows the correct form. A running count of right and wrong answers, with a percentage, stays on screen. There is no fixed length. Every question comes up once before any repeats, in a new random order each pass, so you can't learn the answers by their order. “Stop and see my score” gives your score and a list of the forms you missed, and “Practice my mistakes” drills just those. The quiz remembers your verb ticks on this device, but not the tenses.
Accents, apostrophes and hyphens count
Type “j'ai parle” when the answer is “j'ai parlé” and the quiz marks it wrong, with the note “Almost: check the accents, apostrophes and hyphens” and the right answer. That's fair, because parle is the present tense and parlé the past participle. Apostrophes follow French elision. Je drops its vowel before a vowel or a silent h, so j'aime and j'ai parlé are right and “je aime” is wrong. Verbs that start with an h aspiré keep the full je, as in je hais (haïr) and je hurle, and “j'hais” is wrong. A missing apostrophe or hyphen, as in “jai parlé” or “dépêche toi”, is marked wrong the same way, with the same “Almost” note. You don't need a French keyboard. Thirteen buttons on screen type à, â, ç, é, è, ê, ë, î, ï, ô, ù, û and œ, on a laptop or a phone. Capital letters don't matter, and neither does the subject pronoun: je parle and parle both count. Reflexive pronouns are part of the form, so the answer is me souviens, not souviens.
Passé composé with être, and agreement
The compound tenses are asked in full, with the auxiliary: j'ai parlé, je suis allé. Every verb takes the auxiliary a textbook gives it. Of the 600 verbs, 32 take être in the passé composé, and 10 of those are the verbs always used with se, such as se souvenir, se dépêcher and s'évanouir. Monter, descendre, sortir, rentrer, retourner and passer are asked with être, in their sense of moving (je suis sorti), as textbook être lists give them. With an object they take avoir (j'ai sorti la poubelle), and the quiz leaves that use out. With être the participle agrees with the subject. Where the pronoun doesn't show a gender, either ending is right: je suis allé or je suis allée, nous sommes allés or allées, and for vous, which can mean one person or several, allé, allée, allés or allées. With il, elle, ils or elles the participle has to match. Il est allé and elle est allée are right, il est allée is not, and the same goes for ils sont allés and elles sont allées. On takes either. Verbs with avoir don't agree with the subject, so the answer is elle a parlé. A drill on the être verbs in the passé composé takes two ticks.
The 13 tenses, and que in the subjunctive
All 13 tenses are available, in four groups. The indicative has the present (je parle), imperfect (je parlais), simple past (je parlai, used in books and stories), future (je parlerai), near future (je vais parler) and conditional (je parlerais). The perfect tenses are the passé composé or compound past (j'ai parlé), pluperfect (j'avais parlé), future perfect (j'aurai parlé) and past conditional (j'aurais parlé). The subjunctive has the present (que je parle) and the past (que j'aie parlé), and the imperative has the tu, nous and vous commands: parle, parlons, parlez. In the subjunctive you may type que or leave it out. Que je parle and je parle are both right, and so is qu'il parle, but “que il parle” is not. Impersonal verbs such as il faut and il pleut take only il. Where French has two standard forms, both count: je paie and je paye. Spelling is the traditional one, so the quiz expects il connaît and je préférerai.
How accurate are the forms?
The quiz uses the same tables as the worksheets. The forms come from Wiktionary, and we checked every simple form of all 600 verbs, 25,200 in all, against the Lefff lexicon of French and the verbecc conjugator. Against Lefff, 25,192 agreed. We checked the 6 that differed by hand, and Wiktionary was right every time. The worksheet page gives the full results. There is one limit. The 1990 spelling reform also allows il connait and je préfèrerai, and both are correct French, but the quiz expects the traditional spelling, so it marks them “Almost”, as a slip in the accents.
A quiz for you, a worksheet for the class
The quiz is made for one person at a keyboard or a phone, checking answers as they go. Before a French verb conjugation test, tick only the tenses it covers, such as the passé composé (j'ai parlé) and the imparfait (je parlais), and finish each run with “Practice my mistakes”. For a class, the same verbs and tenses print as French verb conjugation worksheets: fill-in boxes, a printed quick quiz and a verb chart, with answer keys on separate pages. To look up one verb, every form of all 600 is in the French verb conjugation tables. And if you learn Spanish or German too, the Spanish and German verb conjugation quizzes work the same way.
Frequently asked questions
Is this French conjugation quiz free?
Yes. There is no account, no email address and no limit on how long you practice. It works in the browser on a computer or a phone, and the full verb tables load only when you start a quiz.
Which tenses can I practice?
Thirteen. In the indicative: present (présent), imperfect (imparfait), simple past (passé simple), future (futur simple), near future (futur proche) and conditional (conditionnel présent). The perfect tenses: compound past (passé composé), pluperfect (plus-que-parfait), future perfect (futur antérieur) and past conditional (conditionnel passé). In the subjunctive: present and past. In the imperative: the tu, nous and vous commands. Each one has an example on the setup screen, such as "je vais parler · I am going to speak" for the futur proche.
Which verbs are in the quiz?
All 600 verbs from the worksheets, ranked by how often they occur in film and TV subtitles, plus everyday and classroom verbs such as se doucher, nager and épeler. Tick boxes to narrow them by group, or to verbs that take être in the passé composé or are always used with se. Ticks in one group add up, and groups narrow each other, so 3rd group and être together give the irregular verbs that take être, such as aller and venir.
Do accents count?
Yes. "j'ai parle" for "j'ai parlé" is marked wrong, with a note to check the accents, apostrophes and hyphens. On-screen buttons type à, â, ç, é, è, ê, ë, î, ï, ô, ù, û and œ, so you don't need a French keyboard. Capital letters don't count.
Do I have to type je, tu and the other pronouns?
No. Je parle and parle are both marked right, and in the subjunctive que is optional too. When you do type je, elide it the French way: j'aime, not je aime, but je hais, not j'hais. Reflexive pronouns are part of the form, so the answer is me souviens, not souviens.
Is it je suis allé or je suis allée?
Both are right, because je doesn't show a gender. The same goes for nous and vous: nous sommes allés or allées, vous êtes allé, allée, allés or allées. With il, elle, ils or elles the ending must match, so elle est allée is right and il est allée is wrong. On takes either. Verbs with avoir don't agree with the subject: elle a parlé.
What if I don't know the names of the tenses?
You don't need them. Every tense and verb group on the setup screen has a plain-English example under it, such as "j'ai parlé · I spoke, I have spoken" for the passé composé or "finir → je finis, nous finissons" for the 2nd group. You can pick by what the forms look like and learn the names later.
Can I practice only the forms I got wrong?
Yes. Press "Stop and see my score" for your score and a list of the forms you missed, then "Practice my mistakes" to go through just those again.
Licenses and credits
Conjugation tables come from English Wiktionary through kaikki.org (CC BY-SA 4.0). Verbs are ranked by Hermit Dave's FrequencyWords list, built from OpenSubtitles 2018 (CC BY-SA 4.0).