📖LearnModule 3 · Lesson 9 of 30Basic User · CEFR A2, first halfUnit 2 · Le futur proche, and new verb families
Vendre, attendre — the -re family
Module 3 of the free French course (CEFR A2, first half), lesson 9 of 30: ), nous vendons, vous vendez, ils vendent. On this page: 7 words with their genders and respellings, the rule, a watch-out line, the conjugation table and the audio — the study notes behind the workbook's lesson 9.
The words
French
English
Say it
vendre
to sell
vah(n)dr
je vends
I sell
zhuh VAH(n)
il vend
he sells
eel VAH(n)
attendre
to wait
ah-TAH(n)DR
j'attends le bus
I am waiting for the bus
zhah-tah(n) luh BEWS
j'ai vendu
I sold
zhay vah(n)-DEW
nous avons attendu
we waited
noo zah-voh(n) zah-tah(n)-DEW
Respellings follow the course’s say-it key; the stressed syllable is in capitals. Print this lesson’s flashcards (PDF) — the words on the front, the English and respelling on the back.
Hear the words
Each word is read twice — say it back in the gap. Computer-generated voice; credits on the course page.
La règle · The rule
The third family ends in -re: je vends, tu vends, il vend (no ending at all!), nous vendons, vous vendez, ils vendent.
Et aussi · And also
Attendre (to wait) matches. The participle ends in -u: j'ai vendu, nous avons attendu.
Attention · Watch out
il vend has no ending at all — not il vendt, not il vende. In the -re family the il-form is the bare stem.
vendre — the table
je vends · tu vends · il/elle vend · nous vendons · vous vendez · ils/elles vendent
attendre — the table
je attends · tu attends · il/elle attend · nous attendons · vous attendez · ils/elles attendent
vendre, passé composé — the table
je ai vendu · tu as vendu · il/elle a vendu · nous avons vendu · vous avez vendu · ils/elles ont vendu
Do it now — on paper
Say all 7 words aloud twice from the respelling, then once from the French spelling alone — begin with vendre.
Copy every word with its accents on paper; then cover the English column and write each meaning back from the French.
Write out vendre and attendre and vendre, passé composé in full from memory, every person, and check each form against the table above.
This free course is the reading half. The writing half — write-in lessons, daily practice pages with built-in review, self-checks and a full answer key — is the companion workbook series, The French Ladder: one workbook per module, fifteen in all, released band by band with the Basic band (Modules 1–5) first.
Keep these words
Turn this lesson’s words into flashcards, then space your reviews — the two habits the research behind our study guides backs hardest.