French Verb Conjugator
French Verb Conjugator is a free tool that instantly builds a full French verb conjugation chart for any verb you type — regular or irregular, across eight tenses. It draws on a built-in dictionary of 326 common French verbs, so there's no lookup delay, no ads, and no sign-up: type a verb, pick it from the list, and the conjugation table appears right there in your browser.
How to Conjugate a French Verb with This Tool
Type a French verb's infinitive — parler, finir, être, anything in the built-in dictionary — into the search field above. An instant list of matching verbs appears as you type; tap the one you mean. The full conjugation table for that verb appears immediately below, organized by tense, with every subject pronoun (je, tu, il/elle, nous, vous, ils/elles) shown alongside its conjugated form.
Use the pill-shaped filter row above the table to control which tenses show. Présent, passé composé, imparfait, and futur simple are on by default — the four tenses used in ordinary spoken and written French — and you can add plus-que-parfait, conditionnel présent, subjonctif présent, or impératif with a tap when you need them.
French Verb Tenses This Tool Covers
This French verb conjugator covers eight tenses in total. Présent is the everyday tense for current and habitual actions. Passé composé and imparfait split the past between a completed event and an ongoing or background state. Futur simple covers what will happen, and conditionnel présent covers what would happen. Subjonctif présent handles doubt, wish, and necessity after que. Plus-que-parfait places one past event before another. Impératif gives commands, and is shown for just the tu, nous, and vous forms — the only ones French actually has.
Regular vs Irregular French Verb Conjugation
Regular verbs fall into three families by their infinitive ending — -er (like parler), -ir (like finir), and -re (like vendre) — each taking a fixed, predictable set of endings. Irregular verbs, including some of the most common words in the language (être, avoir, aller, faire, pouvoir, vouloir, prendre, venir), don't follow those patterns and have to be conjugated from memory. This tool's dictionary already has the standard irregulars worked out, so a verb like être produces the same complete, correctly formed table as a regular one like parler — no need to know in advance which kind it is.
For compound tenses like passé composé and plus-que-parfait, the tool also shows which auxiliary verb — avoir or être — that verb takes, since getting the wrong one is one of the most common mistakes in French conjugation.
Frequently Asked Questions
How do you conjugate French verbs ending in -er, -ir, and -re?
Each family drops its infinitive ending and adds a fixed set of endings for the subject: -er verbs like parler take -e, -es, -e, -ons, -ez, -ent; -ir verbs like finir take -is, -is, -it, -issons, -issez, -issent; -re verbs like vendre take -s, -s, nothing, -ons, -ez, -ent. This tool applies the right pattern automatically, including the spelling changes that verbs like manger, commencer, appeler, and lever need in specific persons.
What's the difference between avoir and être in the passé composé?
Most French verbs form the passé composé with avoir (j'ai parlé). A short, closed list of verbs of motion or state — aller, venir, arriver, partir, entrer, sortir, monter, descendre, naître, mourir, rester, tomber, retourner, devenir, revenir, and their compounds — use être instead (je suis allé), and their past participle then agrees with the subject's gender and number. Every pronominal verb (se lever, s'appeler) also takes être. This tool marks each verb's auxiliary above its conjugation table.
How do you conjugate irregular French verbs?
Irregular verbs — être, avoir, aller, faire, pouvoir, vouloir, devoir, prendre, venir, and dozens of others — don't follow the regular -er/-ir/-re patterns, so their forms have to be known rather than derived from a rule. This tool's built-in dictionary already has the standard irregulars conjugated across every tense the tool covers, so typing one shows the same full table as a regular verb.
How do you conjugate French verbs in the imparfait?
Take the nous form of the present tense, drop the -ons, and add -ais, -ais, -ait, -ions, -iez, -aient. Être is the one exception, using the irregular stem ét- (j'étais, tu étais, il était…). This tool shows the imparfait for any verb by default alongside the présent, passé composé, and futur simple.
What are the French verb tenses and when do you use each one?
Présent covers current and habitual actions; passé composé and imparfait split the past between completed events and ongoing/background states; futur simple covers what will happen; conditionnel présent covers what would happen; subjonctif présent covers doubt, wish, and necessity after que; and impératif gives commands. This tool's tense filter lets you toggle any of these on for the verb you've looked up.
How do you form the French passé composé?
Conjugate avoir or être in the present tense for the subject, then add the verb's past participle: j'ai mangé, elle est partie, ils se sont levés. Getting it right means knowing three things at once — which auxiliary the verb takes, the participle's exact form, and whether that participle needs to agree with the subject — which is exactly what this tool works out for you automatically.
