Free French Verb Conjugation Worksheets

How the French conjugation worksheet generator works

Start with the verbs. The list holds 600 French verbs, ranked by how often they occur in film and TV subtitles, plus everyday and classroom verbs that subtitles underrate, such as se doucher, nager, épeler and souligner. Each verb has its English meaning, and you can search the list in French or English. Filters narrow it the way French teachers group verbs: regular -er verbs of the 1st group, -er verbs with a spelling change (manger, commencer, appeler, acheter, préférer, payer), 2nd group -ir verbs like finir, and the irregular verbs of the 3rd group, aller included. Two more filters list the verbs that take être in the passé composé and the verbs always used with se. A live count shows how many verbs match. A worksheet holds up to 30 verbs, in the order you click them. Then tick the tenses you want, and choose the kind of sheet on the preview.

Fill-in boxes, a quick quiz or a verb chart

The fill-in worksheet gives every verb one box for each tense, twelve boxes to a page in four rows of three. Make them smaller to fit fifteen on a page, or bigger for younger learners, with six or four to a page. Each box lists all six persons: je, tu, il/elle/on, nous, vous and ils/elles. The first line reads je/j', because the answers are the verb forms alone, so the same line serves je parle, j'aime and j'ai parlé. The answer key prints on separate pages, so you can hand out the worksheet and keep the key. The quick quiz is a French verb conjugation quiz that gives you practice out of order: 10 to 50 shuffled lines, each asking for one form, such as “nous · aller · passé composé”. If the verbs and tenses you picked cannot fill a count, that count is grayed out. The Shuffle button makes a new version for the next class, and the quiz has its own answer key too. The verb chart prints every form filled in, which gives you a printable French verb conjugation chart to keep in a binder. To look up a single verb instead, the French verb conjugation tables give each of the 600 verbs a page of its own with every form in all 13 tenses, and print it as a chart in one click.

Passé composé, imparfait and the other tenses

All 13 tenses are available, in four groups. The indicative has the present (présent), imperfect (imparfait), simple past (passé simple), future (futur simple), near future (futur proche: je vais parler) and conditional. The perfect tenses are the compound past (passé composé), pluperfect (plus-que-parfait), future perfect (futur antérieur) and past conditional (conditionnel passé). The subjunctive has the present and the past, and the imperative has the tu, nous and vous commands: parle, parlons, parlez. Each tense has its French name printed next to the English one. In the perfect tenses every verb takes the auxiliary a textbook gives it, and a verb that takes être shows its agreement the way French charts print it: je suis allé(e), il/elle/on est allé(e), nous sommes allé(e)s, vous êtes allé(e)(s), since vous may be one person or several. Monter, descendre, sortir, rentrer, retourner and passer take être here, in the sense of moving (je suis sorti(e)), as the être lists in textbooks give them; with a direct object they take avoir (j'ai sorti la poubelle), which the sheets leave out. A passé composé worksheet for ten être verbs takes a few clicks.

Reflexive verbs with se

Any verb can be made reflexive with the +se button. Add it to laver and the sheet works with se laver: je me lave, tu te laves and on down the table. The pronoun drops its vowel before a vowel or a silent h (je m'habille) but not before an h aspiré (je me hurle). Every compound tense takes être, with agreement (je me suis lavé(e), nous nous sommes lavé(e)s), except where se is an indirect object, as in se parler, se téléphoner, se demander and se rappeler, where the participle never agrees: nous nous sommes parlé. In the near future the pronoun goes before the infinitive (je vais me laver), and in commands it follows the verb: lave-toi, lavons-nous, lavez-vous. Verbs used only with se, such as se souvenir, se méfier, s'évanouir, s'enfuir, se moquer, se dépêcher and se taire, always print with it. Être, avoir, aller, pouvoir and the impersonal verbs (il faut, il pleut, il neige) ignore the button. The answer key prints every one of those forms in full.

How accurate are the forms?

The forms come from Wiktionary, and we checked every simple form of all 600 verbs, 25,200 in all, against two independent sources: the Lefff lexicon of French and the verbecc conjugator, whose tables come from Verbiste. Against Lefff, 25,192 forms agreed. We checked the 6 that differed by hand, and Wiktionary was right every time: Lefff gives the literary je puis, for instance, and the participle inclu. Against verbecc, 25,091 agreed, and the 12 that differed were all the future and conditional of protéger, which verbecc spells only the 1990 way. We then checked the forms the tool builds by rule, the compound tenses and every tense with se, against verbecc's own tables: 57,332 of 58,349 agreed. We read the rest. Nearly all were rules verbecc does not apply: it drops the vowel before an h aspiré (je m'hurle), makes the participle agree after an indirect se (nous nous sommes parlés), gives apparaître, intervenir and redevenir avoir instead of être, and leaves s'enfuir without agreement. Spelling is the traditional one, so the sheets print il connaît and je préférerai, not the 1990 alternatives il connait and je préfèrerai, which are also correct. Where French has two standard forms, the sheets print both: je paie / je paye, je m'assieds / je m'assois.

Free worksheets for teachers and classrooms

Every sheet has a name and date line, prints in black and white, and can be photocopied freely. All six persons appear in every box, so formal vous and informal tu are both covered. Build one worksheet per unit, or a freshly shuffled quiz per student for French conjugation practice before a test. If you teach another language too, the same generator makes Spanish, German, Italian, European Portuguese and Brazilian Portuguese verb conjugation worksheets.

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Licenses and credits

Conjugation tables come from English Wiktionary through kaikki.org (CC BY-SA 4.0). The verb ranking comes from Hermit Dave's FrequencyWords list, built from OpenSubtitles 2018 (CC BY-SA 4.0).