French verbs difference between regular and irregular?

Answer 1

I'm pretty sure this is the difference...but I'm not french so don't expect it to be the best one. Irregular is like the verb aller(to go) in french; it was completely different endings. Here are the endings for aller:

Je vais (I go)

Tu as (you go)

Il/Elle va (He/She goes)

Nous allons (We go)

Vous allez (You go)*

Ils vont (They go)**

Let's just put it like this: Irregular verbs are the ones that end differently. If it was english, it would be verbs like "buy". (The past tense would be "bought".)

The regular verbs are the ones like "walk" in english. (The past tense:walked)

Regular and irregular verbs all have teminations. I suggest you go to about.com for more information, because they have exellent explanations.

* you use the word vous is used for important people, elders, etc. etc. (example: the president) OR when you're talking to a lot of people and you're calling all of them "you". It that case, it would be like a plural "you".

**The word Ils is for "They". The feminine form of it is Elles, but if the "they" is both girl and boys, it would automatically be Ils.

Answer 2

There are 3 different types of Spanish verbs; verbs ending in "-ar", "-er" and "-ir". Regular verbs in each category will follow a specific pattern when you use the verb. For example, a regular "-ar" verb is "comprar" (to buy). If you wanted to say "I bought" which is the preterite tense, you take off the "-ar" and you are left with the stem of the word which is "compr". To make this into "I bought", you just add "-é" so the verb now becomes "compré". Any regular verb ending in "-ar" will follow this same pattern. The "-er" and "-ir" verbs also have different endings to give the stem of the verb various meanings, and all regular verbs within their category will follow the same pattern. Irregular verbs however, do not follow these rules. Irregular verbs don't follow any particular pattern and we just have to learn the various words for the irregular verbs. An example of an irregular verb would be "Ir" meaning "to go". The preterite (past) tense for this verb looks nothing like the infinitive("Ir"); the word for "I went" is "fui". There are also other words coming from the infinitive, "fui" was just one example. I hope this helped you somewhat! :)

Answer 3

Most of the core vocabulary English verbs and some old nouns are "irregular." They retain traces of the Old English declensions that have fallen away from most words and from word formation in Modern English.

Regular nouns simply form the plural by adding -s or -es e.g. dogs, waitresses

Irregular nouns may form the plural

1. By umlaut e.g. goose - geese, man - men

2. With the ending -en e.g. ox - oxen

3 With -en and umlaut e.g. brother - brethren

4. With no ending e.g moose - moose.

5. In the case of Latin or Greek neuters, in -a e.g. datum - data, criterion - criteria