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Re: Need help - website for conjugating verbs

Postby Iversen » Tue Dec 15, 2015 12:17 pm

I'm not terribly impressed. The first thing you see is a double selection of languages. You choose your own (or at least one you know) plus a target language, and then you see a few forms of an apparently random verb with forms that match - in my case the compound perfect indicative forms of German verschütten and the simple perfect forms of Portuguese derramar. But already here I get sceptical. There IS a compound past tense in Portuguese - why not show that too? And why precisely this fairly uncommon verb? After pressing "weiter" I come to the future forms. Why not the other past tense forms? And no warnings about restrictions on the use of 2. person forms, no mention of the possible insertion of pronouns between root and endings in Portuguese etc. And to boot there are three levels, and only the bottom one is free.

If I want to get an overview over the forms of a verb, then I use verbix.com which shows the whole gamut of forms of a certain verb on one page in a setup that suits that language. But even verbix isn't ideal. It is difficult to use with other alphabets, and you have to know the infinitive or (with some languages) the 1. person singular of the present indicative. But at least it is free.
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Re: Need help - website for conjugating verbs

Postby rfnsoares » Tue Dec 15, 2015 1:06 pm

Hello!
If you are interested in French conjugation, I believe that leconjugueur.lefigaro is a good choise. I use it all the time. :)
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Re: Need help - website for conjugating verbs

Postby tangleweeds » Tue Dec 15, 2015 5:52 pm

Here's another verb conjugation site I ran across:

http://www.verbix.com/
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Re: Need help - website for conjugating verbs

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