Vous êtes écouté à la Cospébrie French Verbefix,

c'est à la 1e, Episode 9,

et nous sommes allés les Verbes D'auvoir.

Bonjour à tous et à toutes et bienvenue à Cospébrie French.

C'est la 9e épisode de la Cospébrie French Verbefix.

Et c'est le moment qui nous donnez votre week-end fixe de Cospébrie French

and help you sort out your verbs so that you can use them accurately and effectively in your spoken and written French.

Moi, comme vous le savez très bien, je m'appelle Marc, je suis votre professeur et je vais vous aider avec vos verbes français.

In the past couple of episodes, we've been looking at pouvoir, to be able to, and vouloir, to want.

And both of these verbs are modal verbs. They are verbs that you can use with other infinitives.

So, for example, je peux venir. I can come. Je veux faire mes devoirs. I want to do my homework and so on.

Today we're going to be looking at another modal verb. Another verb that conjugates in a similar way to pouvoir en vouloir.

And it's the verb devoir. It's irregular. It means to have to, to must, if you like.

Again, we can't really say to must, but it's the word that we use to translate devoir into English.

I must do something. Je dois faire quelques shows.

We'll hear all of the conjugations of our present, imperfect, perfect and future tenses in the course of this episode.

So, let's get started.

As usual, we're going to go through the conjugations of each tense here and we're going to start with the present tense.

The present tense of devoir, the infinitive is spelled the d-e-v-o-i-r.

And your present tense starts with je dois, dois, d-o-i-s, je dois.

Then the tuformes tu dois, d-o-i-s, again.

Then il, l-on, dois, d-o-i-t.

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