I go, I do go, I am going away, je m'en vais, ou je m'en vas. Thou goest away, tu t'en vas. He or she goes away, il ou elle s'en va. One, any body, &c. goes away, on s'en va. PLURAL. We go away, nous nous en allons. You go away, vous vous en allez. People, we, they, &c. go away, on s'en va. And so on through the other tenses. PAST TENSES. PAST, OR COMPOUND OF THE PRESENT. PAST ANTERIOR, OR COMPOUND OF THE IMPERFECT. PAST ANTERIOR PERIODICAL, OR COMPOUND OF THE PRETERITE. I had gone away, je m'en fus allé, &c. PAST POSTERIOR, OR COMPOUND OF THE FUTURE. IMPERATIVE. Go (thou) away, va-t-en. Let us go away, allons-nous-en. Go away, allez-vous-en. And so on through the other tenses. We conclude, at once, what relates to the irregular verbs of this conjugation, by observing that the verb envoyer, to send, is irregular, in two tenses, viz. the present posterior, or future of the indicative, and the conditional present. NOTE. There are some trifling irregularities in the spelling of a few verbs belonging to this conjugation, among which we shall notice those of the verbs ending in ger and cer. In order to soften the pronunciation, these require that e should be placed immediately before the vowel a.-EXAMPLE, changer, manger, must be written-changeant, mangeant; changeais, mangeais, &c. in the participle present and present anterior or imperfect of the indicative; and, not changant, mangant, changeis, mangais. For the same reason, in those in cer, as recommencer, avancer, &c. the letter c before a takes the sound of 8, which is signified by placing, under the c, a cedilla; thus, ç. Hence, we must write commençant, avançant ; commençais, avançais, with the cedilla. The verb puer, to stink, which, according to the inflection of a regular verb, should make, in the three first persons, je pue, tu pues, il pue; makes, on the contrary, je pus, tu pus, il put. In order to complete our view of the first conjugation, we shall now present the pupil with the verb geler, to freeze, as a model for the conjugation of the impersonals belonging to it. PRESENT ANTERIOR PERIODICAL, OR PRETERITE. PRESENT POSTERIOR, Or future, It will freeze, il gèlera. PAST, OR COMPOUND OF THE PRESENT. It has frozen, il a gelé. PAST ANTERIOR, OR COMPOUND OF the imperfECT. PAST ANTERIOR PERIODICAL, OR COMPOUND OF It had frozen, il eut gelé. PAST POSTERIOR, OR COMPOUND OF THE FUTURE. PAST JUST ELAPSED. It has just frozen, il vient de geler. FUTURE INDEFINITE. It is to freeze, il doit geler. INSTANT FUTURE. It is going to freeze, il va geler. CONDITIONAL. PRESENT. It should freeze, il gèlerait. PAST, OR COMPOUND of the presENT. SUBJUNCTIVE. PRESENT. That it may freeze, qu'il gèle. PRESENT ANTERIOR, OR IMPERFECT, &c. That it might freeze, qu'il gelát. That it may have frozen, qu'il ait gelé. That it might have frozen, qu'il eut gelé. NOTE.-The scholar would do well to exercise himself in conjugating, impersonally, some of the following verbs, which are all of the first conjugation: To snow, neiger. To seem, sembler. To happen, arriver. To thaw, dégeler. To hail, greler. To drizzle, bruiner. To concern, importer. To go, aller, in such phrases as lly va de la vie, de l'honneur; life, honour is at stake. |