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Wednesday, November 6, 2019

Learn How to Conjugate Placer (to Place) in French

Learn How to Conjugate Placer (to Place) in French The French verb  placer means to put or to place. You can imagine how useful this word will be in your French conversations, so a lesson in conjugating the verb will certainly help. By the end, youll be able to use  placer  to say things such as she placed and we are placing. The Basic Conjugations of  Placer French verb conjugations are not always easy because there are many words to memorize and not all verbs follow the regular rules. Unfortunately, placer is a spelling change verb, so it does come with a catch, but its easy to remember if you understand it. For a verb like  placer,  in which the verb stem ends with a  c, there are times when it requires a  Ãƒ §. Youll find this most often in the imperfect past tense, though it can appear anywhere that an  a  or  o  come first on the infinitive ending. This change is necessary to retain the soft  c  sound. Without it, the vowels would make it sound like cat. Beyond that minor issue, you will find that  placer  uses the exact same endings as a  regular -er  verb, which is the most common conjugation pattern found in French. If you already know a few of those words, you can apply the same endings to this verb. Using the chart, you can study the most common indicative mood forms of placer. These include the present, future, and imperfect past tenses, which you will use most often. All you need to do is match the subject pronoun to the appropriate tense for your sentence. For example, I am placing is je place and we will place is nous placerons. Present Future Imperfect je place placerai plaais tu places placeras plaais il place placera plaait nous plaons placerons placions vous placez placerez placiez ils placent placeront plaaient The Present Participle of  Placer The spelling change is also required for placers present participle. Thats because it uses the -ant ending found in many regular verbs. The result is the word plaà §ant. Placer  in the Compound Past Tense Beyond the imperfect, you can also use the  passà © composà ©Ã‚  to indicate the past tense. To form it, you will need two elements: the present tense conjugate of  avoir  and the  past participle  placà ©.  When you put the two together, you get results such as  jai placà ©Ã‚  (I placed) and  nous avons placà ©Ã‚  (we placed). More Simple Conjugations of  Placer Placer  has many conjugations, though well finish this lesson with a few more of its simplest forms. Each has its own use and can be useful additions to your French vocabulary. The subjunctive can help you imply uncertainty to the act of placing. The conditional is useful for times when the action is dependent on something else. You will most likely only find the passà © simple and imperfect subjunctive in written French as these are literary tenses. Subjunctive Conditional Pass Simple Imperfect Subjunctive je place placerais plaai plaasse tu places placerais plaas plaasses il place placerait plaa plat nous placions placerions plames plaassions vous placiez placeriez plates plaassiez ils placent placeraient placrent plaassent The French imperative is used for direct commands and statements and this is the one time when its acceptable to skip the subject pronoun. Instead of tu place, you can say place. Imperative (tu) place (nous) plaons (vous) placez

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