The CBF Verb Fix 110 – Aller
Coffee Break French
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🗓️ 8 August 2013
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
This is the final lesson of this season and we’re looking at the irregular verb aller meaning “to go”. Aller is a very common verb and in addition to being used in its normal sense, it is also used as part of the simple future tense, as in “I am going to visit my aunt” and other such sentences. There’s also something you need to take on board with aller when conjugating it in the perfect tense. All will be explained in the lesson.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the Coffee Break French Verbe Fix, this is season 1, episode 10, and |
| 0:04.7 | we're looking at the Verbe Alley. |
| 0:17.4 | Welcome to this final episode in this season of the Coffee Break French Verbe Fix. |
| 0:21.8 | This is the show which will give you your weekly fix of Coffee Break French and help you |
| 0:25.6 | sort out your verbs so that you can use them accurately and effectively in your spoken |
| 0:30.1 | and written French. |
| 0:31.7 | Moi je m'appelle Marc, je suis votre professeur et je vais vous aider avec vos verbes français. |
| 0:37.2 | I am indeed here to help you with your French verbs. |
| 0:40.1 | And this week we're looking at a very, very popular verb, a very common verb, and that |
| 0:45.5 | is the verb Alley, meaning to go. |
| 0:48.3 | It's used in many, many situations, including in some idiomatic expressions. |
| 0:53.9 | For example, when you say Sava, you're asking really how things are going, you're using |
| 0:59.4 | the verb Alley. |
| 1:00.7 | And it's also used as something of an auxiliary verb when you're talking about the immediate |
| 1:05.6 | future tense. |
| 1:06.6 | I am going to take the train, je vais prendre le train. |
| 1:11.4 | Now you may be wondering why we've left Alley to the end of this first season. |
| 1:15.6 | Well, there is a good reason for this, because in the perfect tense, things happen a little |
| 1:20.8 | bit differently with Alley, but we'll come to that. |
| 1:23.6 | All in good time. |
| 1:25.8 | OK, we're going to start. |
| 1:30.1 | As usual, by conjugating Alley in the present, perfect, imperfect and future tenses, we'll |
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