Using the list

This list contains the most frequently used French verbs. However, it does not include verbs conjugated like porter, ie those hundreds of verbs belonging to Group 1 –er verbs. Each verb occurs in the first column with its meaning, and in the second column has a reference to another verb with which its conjugation is identical or very closely linked, when the verb itself occurs in the tabular section. By referring to the verb mentioned in the second column, it will be possible to deduce the forms of the paradigm of the verb that is being looked up.

For example, to discover the paradigm of abattre, it is simply a matter of consulting the battre entry in the Tables above, and making the appropriate adjustments to abattre in the light of the information contained there (169, 173), where reference is also made to the discursive section (33, 56).