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Conjugation
Objective: Conjugate mourir and naître across all six persons, apply the past participles mort and né with être, and use the pair to narrate biographical timelines.
| Pronoun | mourir | naître |
|---|---|---|
| je | meurs | nais |
| tu | meurs | nais |
| il / elle / on | meurt | naît |
| nous | mourons | naissons |
| vous | mourez | naissez |
| ils / elles | meurent | naissent |
Mourir takes the auxiliary être in the passé composé. The auxiliary avoir never appears with this verb, and the participle agrees with the subject.
The past participle of naître is né, not the present-tense form naît. The participle agrees with the feminine subject, producing née.
The past participle of naître is né, and it agrees with the masculine singular subject il.
The feminine subject takes the ending -e, producing née. The auxiliary être remains in the present tense.
The plural subject takes the ending -s, producing nés. The participle agrees in number.
Mourir takes the auxiliary être, and the participle mort agrees with the masculine singular subject.
The feminine subject takes the ending -e, producing morte.
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Mourir takes the auxiliary être, not avoir, and the past participle agrees with the subject in gender and number.
The plural subject takes the plural participle nés, with the ending -s and an acute accent on the e. The form naît belongs to the third-person singular of the present tense.
The plural subject takes the ending -s. The masculine plural form morts agrees with a mixed or all-male group.
Naître also applies to abstract subjects such as a tradition or a movement. The feminine subject takes née.
The expression mourir de faim uses the present tense with a figurative meaning. The first-person singular is meurs.