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Verb Groups

In French, verbs can be grouped into three different categories called groups.

FIRST GROUP: all verbs when INFINITIVE is finished by -ER except ALLER.
Particularity: this is the most regular group because the radical does not change during the conjugation: AIMER: aim-e; aim-ons; aim-ent).

SECOND GROUP: all verbs finished by -IR (verbs with infinitive in -IR and present participle in -ISSANT).
This is a regular group. Those verbs always use a double radical. One for the singular and the second one for plural persons: fin-is; finiss-ons).

THIRD GROUP: here are all the irregular verbs. Can be divided into three main sub-category:

1. verbs in -IR (like MOURIR: mour-ant; mour-ons);

2. verbs in -OIR (like RECEVOIR: recev-ant; recev-ons);

3. verbs in -RE (like RENDRE: rend-ant; rend-ons);

4. ALLER even if it terminated by -ER

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