

In French, we can categorise verbs according to their grammatical function in a sentence or according to the mood and tense in which they are used. (action) Cette maison est vraiment très belle.

(action) Le chien a sauté par-dessus la haie. We eat at 8 o’clock on the dot every night. Examples: Nous mangeons tous les soirs à 20h heures pile. Some typical stative verbs in French are être to be, devenir to become, paraître to appear, rester to stay etc. Some typical French action verbs include courir to run, danser to dance, sauter to jump, chanter to sing, écrire to write, lire to read, etc. In addition to physical actions, verbs can also describe processes, concepts, states and thoughts. Les verbes (verbs) are doing words: they express an action performed by the subject of the sentence (a noun or a pronoun).
