![]() Before beginning this lesson, you might find it useful to review Lesson 6, which talked about the passé composé. She elaborates on her method in her post, The Secret To Mastering French Verb Conjugation.In this lesson, we are going to learn about the second major past tense in French, l’imparfait or, in English, the Imperfect Tense. Rather than straight memorization, we suggest considering our friend at at, Camille’s, method of learning based sounds. Learning French verb conjugations can be difficult. In French, the imperative mood (l’imperatif) is use to give commands. We're delighted that they're buying our yacht. Nous sommes ravis qu'ils achètent notre yacht. In the subjunctive mood (le subjonctif), que j’achète translates to “that I buy”. They'd buy the skis if they were on sale. Ils achèteraient les skis s'ils étaient en sold. Vous achèteriez le vélo s'il était disponible. We'd buy the boat if it were less expensive. Nous achèterions le bateau s'il était moins cher. He'd buy the ring for his fiancée but it's too expensive. Il achèterait la bague pour sa fiancée mais elle est trop chère. ![]() You'd buy the house if you had enough money. Tu J'achèterais la maison si tu avais assez d'argent. J'achèterais la voiture si j'avais assez d'argent. In the conditional tense (le conditionnel), j’achèterais translates to “I would buy”. ![]() I don't know if they'll buy the furniture. Je ne sais pas s'ils achèteront les meubles. Ou est-ce que vous achèterez la souffleuse à neige? Quand est-ce qu'elle achètera les billets? J'achèterai la voiture si j'ai assez d'argent. In the future tense (le futur simple), je achetèrai translates to “I will buy”. In the past they bought clothes at the mall. What did you used to buy when you were in high school?ĭans le passé ils achetaient les vêtements au centre commercial. Qu'est-ce que vous achetiez quand vous étiez au lycée? You used to buy, were buying (formal, plural) She used to buy CDs when she was in university.Īvant, nous achetions le déjeuner à la cantine. You used to buy baseball cards when you were a child.Įlle achetait des disques compacts quand elle était à l'université. Tu achetais des cartes de collection de base-ball quand tu étais un enfant. You used to buy, were buying (informal, singular) In the imperfect tense (l’imparfait), j’achetais translates to “I was buying”, “I used to buy” and “I bought”. They bought three tickets for the concert. Ils ont acheté trois billets pour le concert. Nous avons acheté la bouteille de vin rouge. In the passé composé, j’ai acheté translates to “I bought”. In the following video YouTube French teacher Alexa show how to conjugate acheter in the present tense and provides example sentences. They're buying some products for the home. Ils achètent quelques produits pour la maison. Vous achetez des biscuits pour les enfants. J'achète la nouvelle voiture cette année. In the present tense, j’achète translates to “I buy” and “I am buying”. In this section we’ve conjugated acheter in six tenses which are necessary to speak French fluently. Qui est l’acheteur de ce restaurant? Who’s the buyer of this restaurant?.Je fais mes achats au supermarché. I go my shopping at the supermarket.Un achat is a purchase and faire les achats is a way of saying to go shopping. J’achète tous mes livres en ligne. I buy all my books online.Tu aimes ma chemise ? Je l’ai achetée en solde. You like my shirt? I bought it on sale.Les meilleures choses dans la vie ne s’achètent pas. The best things in life can’t be bought.S’acheter in the reflexive form can translate to “be bought” or “be purchased”. J’achète ces skis à mon amie. I’m buying these skis from my friend.J’achète ce vélo. I’m buying this bike.Īcheter qqch à quelqu’un means to buy something from somebody else.J’aimerais acheter les skis. I’d like to buy the skis.Je voudrais acheter une voiture. I’d like to buy a car.In the third sentence, it appears in the conjugated form. In the first two sample sentences below, acheter appears in the infinitive form. Keep reading as we’ve provided lots of example sentences for each tense.Īcheter conjugation table: quick overview. This page on our site explains French accent marks.įurther down the page we’ve provided conjugation charts for acheter in the following tenses. This means that its endings when conjugated in the present tense are the same as other regular -er verbs.Īcheter has a slight irregularity in that there is an accent grave (è) over the -e in the je, tu, il/elle and il/elles forms. The conjugation of acheter in the present tense is j’achète (I buy), tu achètes (you buy), il, elle achète (he, she buys), nous achetons (we buy), vous achetez (you buy) and ils, elles achètent (they buy).Īcheter is a regular -er verb. ![]() Acheter (Pronunciation: aʃ(ə)te] means to buy and to purchase in French.
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