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The forms of créer, nier, scier, rire, etc.
Verbs whose stems end in -é or -i behave just like any other verb: the final vowel does not change, for example:
- je crée (present tense)
- j'ai créé (compound past)
- l'entreprise que j'ai créée (past participle agreement with a preceding feminine direct object)
- nous rions (present tense)
- nous riions (imperfect tense or present subjunctive)
- etc.
Once you've mastered this lesson, take a look at these related pages: Possessive determiners, Omission of the article, Differences in the use of numbers in French and English Ordinal number abbreviations & The French Alphabet.
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