To Take, Eat or Drink
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Prendre |
Boire | ||||||
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| prends | prenons | bois | buvons | ||||
| prends | prenez | bois | buvez | ||||
| prend | prennent | boit | boivent | ||||
Other verbs that are conjugated like prendre: apprendre – to learn, comprendre – to understand, entreprendre – to undertake and surprendre – to surprise.
When you want to say “I am having wine,” the French translation is “Je prends du vin.” You must use de andle, la, l’, or les and the proper contractions (called partitives) because in French you also express some.
So“je prends de la bière” literally means “I am havingsome beer” even though in English we would usually only say I am having beer.
Manger is a regular verb meaning “to eat,” but manger is used in a general sense, such as
Je mange le poulet tous les samedis. I eat chicken every Saturday.
Boire is literally the verb to drink and is also used in a general sense only.
Je bois du vin tout le temps.I drink wine all the time.
Pour aller plus loin, les conjugaison complète des verbes comme prendre, manger et boire
Quelques exercices
- Prendre 1
- Prendre 2
- Pendre 3
- Prendre, comprendre et apprendre
- Prendre et ses composés
- Boire
- Une chanson
