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 — is content still to be authored; the speech runtime it will use is already live and in daily use on P45. Every answer feeds your error-category profile and the reminder deck, so the silent endings you drop keep returning until they stick.

Silent pluralwrite what you cannot hearAudiblefont, vont, -issentSubject-drivenendings follow the subjectB2 tensesthe moods argumentation needs
The root of this system is acoustic: the ear is a witness for some forms and a liar for the rest.
P50 · Verbs & the Third-Person Plural — TransformerLab