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(詳細はFrench, a verb is inflected to reflect its mood and tense, as well as to agree with its subject in person and number. Following the tradition of Latin grammar, the set of inflected forms of a French verb is called the verb's conjugation. == Stems and endings == French verbs have a large number of ''simple'' (one-word) forms. These are composed of two distinct parts: the ''stem'' (or ''root,'' or ''radix),'' which indicates which verb it is, and the ''ending'' (inflection), which indicates the verb's tense and mood and its subject's person and number, though many endings can correspond to multiple tense-mood-subject combinations. In certain parts of the second conjugation there is also a suffix ''-iss-'' between the stem and the ending, which derives historically from an inchoative suffix. *In ''parlaient,'' the stem ''parl-'' indicates that the verb is ''parler (to speak)'' and the ending ''-aient'' marks the third-person plural imperfect indicative. *In ''finissons'', the stem ''fin-'' indicates that the verb is ''finir (to finish),'' the suffix ''-iss-'' follows it, and the inflection ''-ons'' marks the first-person plural present indicative or imperative. Note that it is sometimes difficult to distinguish the stem from the ending, especially in irregular verbs such as ''avoir'' (to have), ''aller'' (to go), ''dire'' (to say), ''être'' (to be), ''faire'' (to do, make), ''pouvoir'' (can), ''savoir'' (to know), ''valoir'' (to be worth, to cost), and ''vouloir'' (to want): *''Il va travailler.'' (He goes to work.) *''Es-tu là ?'' (Are you there?) *''Elle a rougi.'' (She blushed.) 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「French verb morphology」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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