French verb payer - French for pay. Daily French Verb Lesson

Daily Verb Lesson: French for pay is payer

The French for pay is the irregular ER verb payer.
To remember this, imagine you PAY A man dressed in the French colours - red, white and blue!
Payer can also mean: to pay for, to settle (bill); to treat; to cover (compensation); to pay off; to take the blame (fam).
Related words include:
- se payer (vr) : to get paid; to treat oneself to.
- le payeur / la payeuse (n m/f) : payer, paymaster.

With some ER verbs ending in -ayer it is optional to replace the y with an i before a silent syllable. Examples of this family of verb conjugations: bégayer, délayer, effrayer, embrayer, enrayer, payer, pagayer, balayer.

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to pay: payer
Imagine you PAY A man
dressed in the French colours!

VERB CONJUGATION TABLE payer
Simple Tenses payer Present Participle: *payant*
TENSE	je/j'	tu	il	nous	vous	ils
Present Présent pay	paie paye	paies payes	paie paye	payons	payez	paient payent
Past Imperfect Imparfait paid	payais	payais	payait	payions	payiez	payaient
Simple Past Passé Simple paid	payai	payas	paya	payâmes	payâtes	payèrent
Future Futur will pay	paierai payerai	paieras payeras	paiera payera	paierons payerons	paierez payerez	paieront payeront
Conditional Conditionnel would pay	paierais payerais	paierais payerais	paierait payerait	paierions payerions	paieriez payeriez	paieraient payeraient
Present Subjunctive Subjonctif may pay	paie paye	paies payes	paie paye	payions	payiez	paient payent
Compound Tenses payer Past Participle: *payé*
Present Perfect Passé Composé have paid	ai payé	as payé	a payé	avons payé	avez payé	ont payé
Past Perfect Plus-que-Parfait had paid	avais payé	avais payé	avait payé	avions payé	aviez payé	avaient payé
Future Perfect Futur Antérieur will have paid	aurai payé	auras payé	aura payé	aurons payé	aurez payé	auront payé
Conditional Perfect Conditionnel Passé would've paid	aurais payé	aurais payé	aurait payé	aurions payé	auriez payé	auraient payé
Imperative Imperatif pay!		paie! paye !		payons !	payez !

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