No mention is made in the lesson for verbs ending in uire (conduits, traduire, construire) that when conjugating the verb construire, the first R is dropped in nous constuisons and vous constuisez. Is it also dropped in ils/elles constuisent or does it stay as in construisent? Does this also apply for détruire?
Conjugating Conduire/Construire in the indicatif
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Paula S.KwizIQ community member
Conjugating Conduire/Construire in the indicatif
This question relates to:French lesson "Conjugate conduire and other -uire verbs in the present tense in French (Le Présent)"
Asked 4 hours ago
Maarten K.KwizIQ Q&A super contributor
Paula,
you may have seen a flawed conjugation table ?
There is no dropping of the first r in any conjugation form or tense of ‘ construire ‘ that I can find.
The radical ( stem/root ) is always ‘ construi - ‘, with terminal ‘ -re ‘ being dropped across all its conjugated forms.
Détruire follows the same principle in that its root is also formed by dropping the terminal ‘ -re ‘, giving ‘ détrui- ‘ across all its conjugated forms.
( As do almost all irregular ‘ -re ‘ verbs as noted by Laura Lawless in the links below )
https://www.dictionnaire-academie.fr/conjuguer/A9C3780
https://www.lawlessfrench.com/verb-conjugations/construire/
https://www.lawlessfrench.com/grammar/irregular-re-verbs/
https://www.lawlessfrench.com/verb-conjugations/detruire/
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