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This is the Coffee Break French Verbefix, it's season one, episode two, and today we're looking at the Verbe Finir.

Welcome back to the Coffee Break French Verbefix, this is the show in which I help you get your weekly fix of Coffee Break French, and help you sort out your verbs in the process so that you can use them accurately and effectively in your spoken and written French.

This is the second in our season of Tensions, and today we're going to be focusing on the Verbe Finir, and indeed all the regular IR verbs, that's verbs, which end in IR and which follow these same patterns that we'll be learning today.

As we did last time, we're going to be looking at four tenses, the present tense, the perfect tense, the imperfect and the future.

We'll go through the conjugations, and you can learn the patterns so that you can apply them when you need them.

We'll try repeating the verbs with some music, and I'll give you some examples of the verbs and sentences.

We'll also be asking you to translate a couple of sentences using the verbs to test your language skills.

Now the Coffee Break French Verbefix is also about you being involved in this show.

We'd like you to join the Verbefix because we want to hear your uses of the verb in a sentence.

Now last week's show has already been featured in our Verbefix review, and you can find that on the podcast feed, or indeed on our website at radolingo.com.

To find out how you can take part, then head over to radolingo.com slash Verbefix, and you can send us your uses of the verb finir this week to be featured in next week's review show.

It's time to get on with this episode.

So today we're looking at the verb finir. That's F-I-N-I-R, F-I-N-I-R.

And as I've said, finir is an example of a second conjugation verb.

The ones that end in I-R, so the patterns that you'll learn today, can be applied to any of the I-R regular verbs.

A finir means to finish or to end, and we're going to be looking at examples of this verb in the tensis that we're going to conjugate now.

Let's begin with the present tense.

That's I-finish, you finish, he, she, it finishes, and so on.

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