Language/French/Grammar/Verbs-with-prepositions

Hello French learners!😀

In french we have several verbs which working with prepositions, and fortunately there are rules to know when we need to use it!

Also we have to different prepositions, "de" and "à" which could be translated by "to".

Once you've finished this topic, consider exploring these additional resources: Possessive determiners, Omission of the article, Often Mistaken Gender of Nouns & Adjectives modified by adverbs and prepositional phrases.

Verbs with the preposition "de"

• accepter de - to agree to
• achever de - to complete
• accepter de - to accept
• attendre de - to wait for
• arrêter de - to stop
• cesser de - to stop
• continuer de - to continue to
• convenir de - to agree to
• craindre de - to fear
• décider de - to decide to
• empêcher de - to prevent from
• essayer de - to try to
• éviter de - to avoid
• faire exprès de - to do it on purpose
• faire semblant de - to pretend to
• finir de - to finish
• interdire de - to prohibit
• menacer de - to threaten to
• mériter de - to deserve to
• ordonner de - to order to
• oublier de - to forget to
• permettre de - to allows to
• persuader de - to persuade
• promettre de - to promise to
• proposer de - to offer
• refuser de - to refuse to
• regretter de - to regret
• rêver de - to dream of
• risquer de - to risk
• suggérer de - to suggest
• souffrir de - to suffer from
• supplier de - to beg for
• tenter de - to try to

Verbs with the preposition "à"

• aider à - to help
• apprendre à - to learn to
• arriver à - to arrive at
• autoriser à - to allow
• chercher à - to seek to
• commencer à - to start at
• contribuer à - to contribute to
• encourager à - to encourage to
• enseigner à - to teach
• faire attention à - to be careful of
• forcer à - to force
• hésiter à - to hesitate to
• inciter à - to encourage to
• inviter à - to invite to
• jouer à - to play
• parvenir à - to get to
• penser à - to think about
• persister à - to persist in
• pousser à - to push to
• renoncer à - to give up
• réussir à - to succeed in
• servir à - to be used for
• songer à - to think about
• tarder à - to delay to
• tenir à - to stick to
• viser à - to aim at

Verbs without prepositions

The verbs without prepositions are the verbs which express :

• feelings
• will
• movement
• opinion
• needs
• project
• preference

Other Lessons

• Coordination of stressed pronouns
• Omission of plural indefinite des after the preposition de
• Subject Verb Agreement — Agreement quantifiers numeral nouns
• encore VS toujours
• Use of the definite article to indicate a habitual action
• Past participles used as adjectives with the verb être
• Adverbs ending in —(é)ment derived from past participles
• Proper Nouns
• Absolute use of the superlative
• Emphasizing me, te, se, nous, vous by adding a pronoun + même