Daily Verb Lesson: French for understand is entendre
The French for understand is the regular -RE verb entendre.To remember this, imagine you understand the double-ENTENDRE that you hear!
Entendre can also mean: to hear, to mean. Related words include:
- s'entendre (avec) (vr) : to understand one another, to get along (with),
to hear oneself/another.
- l'entendement (nm) : understanding.
- dépasser l'entendement : to be beyond belief.
Most verbs ending in -dre are conjugated in this way such as : confondre, détendre, entendre, étendre, fendre, pendre, prétendre, tendre, tondre, tordre. Exception: prendre (to take) and its compounds.
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Imagine you understand the double-ENTENDRE
that you hear!
| TENSE | ||||||
| Present Présent understand |
entends | entends | entend | entendons | entendez | entendent |
| Past Imperfect Imparfait understood |
entendais | entendais | entendait | entendions | entendiez | entendaient |
| Simple Past Passé Simple understood |
entendis | entendis | entendit | entendîmes | entendîtes | entendirent |
| Future Futur will understand |
entendrai | entendras | entendra | entendrons | entendrez | entendront |
| Conditional Conditionnel would understand |
entendrais | entendrais | entendrait | entendrions | entendriez | entendraient |
| Present Subjunctive Subjonctif may understand |
entende | entendes | entende | entendions | entendiez | entendent |
| Present Perfect Passé Composé have understood |
ai entendu | as entendu | a entendu | avons entendu | avez entendu | ont entendu |
| Past Perfect Plus-que-Parfait had understood |
avais entendu | avais entendu | avait entendu | avions entendu | aviez entendu | avaient entendu |
| Future Perfect Futur Antérieur will have understood |
aurai entendu | auras entendu | aura entendu | aurons entendu | aurez entendu | auront entendu |
| Conditional Perfect Conditionnel Passé would have understood |
aurais entendu | aurais entendu | aurait entendu | aurions entendu | auriez entendu | auraient entendu |
| Imperative Imperatif understand! |
entends ! | entendons ! | entendez ! | |||
✔ entendre is a regular RE verb.
✔ Learn entendre and it will reinforce the pattern for ALL those other regular RE verbs.
✔ Do these verbs every day for a month and you will have a solid knowledge of the RE verbs' conjugation patterns.
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