P50 · Verbs & the Third-Person Plural
silent -ent, audible irregulars, conjugation in speech
The verb system, written face first: third-person plural forms silent and audible, subject-driven endings, and the tense choices B2 argumentation demands — the spoken face follows with the speech runtime.
Verbs hold the third fossilized-error system, and its root is acoustic: the ear-trained learner writes what French pronounces, and French pronounces almost none of its third-person plural. P50 starts exactly there — the silent -ent of ils parlent, the audible irregulars (font, vont, prennent) and the -issent plurals that speech does enforce — then widens to the endings that follow the subject rather than the sound, and the tense choices B2 argumentation demands.
The written face is live now: units teach each contrast, then drill it with deterministic items where the correct form is often one you cannot hear. The spoken face — producing the audible forms under time pressure — arrives with the speech runtime. Every answer feeds your error-category profile and the reminder deck, so the silent endings you drop keep returning until they stick.
- Le pluriel qu'on entend et celui qu'on n'entend pas
P50.verb-systems.01 - Le pluriel en -issent et la famille des verbes en -ir
P50.verb-systems.02 - Les déclencheurs du subjonctif I : il faut que, vouloir que, avant que
P50.verb-systems.03 - Les déclencheurs du subjonctif II : opinion négative, bien que, pour que
P50.verb-systems.04 - Le conditionnel présent : politesse, hypothèse, information non confirmée
P50.verb-systems.05 - Le conditionnel passé : regret, reproche, information non confirmée au passé
P50.verb-systems.06 - Les phrases avec si : les trois schémas (si + présent / imparfait / plus-que-parfait)
P50.verb-systems.07 - La concordance des temps dans le récit et le discours indirect
P50.verb-systems.08 - Le discours rapporté : transposer temps, pronoms et repères
P50.verb-systems.09 - La voix passive et ses alternatives (on, se faire + inf.)
P50.verb-systems.10 - Au-delà du B2 : le ne explétif et le registre soutenu
P50.verb-systems.11 - Les rectifications orthographiques de 1990
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