In this lesson, we're going to be looking at irregular verbs. Not everything in French, unfortunately, is regular.

And we'll find that the patterns that we've been learning are slightly different depending on which verb you're trying to conjugate.

This time we'll be looking at the verb Ali, which means to go. Now in English, lots of verbs are irregular and it's the same in French.

So we'll be finding out how to conjugate Ali in its six parts. I hope that you find this lesson useful.

Okay, so last time we learned the word Alon as an Alon or Cinema. What does Alon mean?

Let's go.

So it's the new form of the verb, nos alons, but you drop the new when you're making it let's do something.

So alons aux cinemas, let's go to the cinema, or nos alons aux cinemas, we are going to the cinema. So notice the difference there.

But Alon comes from the verb Ali as we learned last week. And Ali therefore means to go.

Now this week we're going to look at the verb Ali in more detail. I said last week, it doesn't follow the same patterns as the verbs we've been learning so far, like la vie, je lave, je lave, lave, lave, nous lavant, voulavé, il lave, lave.

Ali is what's called an irregular verb. An irregular verb basically means it's got some slightly different patterns than the ones that you would expect.

But the good thing about irregular verbs is that lots of the irregular verbs have regular

irregularities, if that makes sense, basically the follow patterns too.

So let's look at Ali first of all.

To say I go, you see, je vais.

Je vais.

Now you must be thinking, vais, what an earth has that got to do with Ali?

Well, it's all to do really with the history of the word, it's etymology, and the way in

which it's come into the French language from Latin, from vulgar Latin and so on.

In fact, there are even books written about the history of the word Ali because it is quite

a strange one where the infinitive is Ali, which may have come from one particular verb

in Latin, but the individual parts of Ali, like je vais, come from another verb, in this

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