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Daily Verb Lesson: French for pay is payer

The French for pay is the irregular ER verb payer.
To remember this, imagine you PAY A man dressed in the French colours - red, white and blue!
Payer can also mean: to pay for, to settle (bill); to treat; to cover (compensation); to pay off; to take the blame (fam).
Related words include:
  - se payer (vr) : to get paid; to treat oneself to.
  - le payeur / la payeuse (n m/f) : payer, paymaster.

With some ER verbs ending in -ayer it is optional to replace the y with an i before a silent syllable. Examples of this family of verb conjugations: bégayer, délayer, effrayer, embrayer, enrayer, payer, pagayer, balayer.

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           to pay: payer
Imagine you PAY A man
dressed in the French colours!
VERB CONJUGATION TABLE payer
Simple Tenses payer    Present Participle: payant
TENSE
je/j'
tu
il
nous
vous
ils
Present
Présent

pay
paie
paye
paies
payes
paie
paye
payons payez paient
payent
Past Imperfect
Imparfait
paid
payais payais payait payions payiez payaient
Simple Past
Passé Simple

paid
payai payas paya payâmes payâtes payèrent
Future
Futur

will pay
paierai
payerai
paieras
payeras
paiera
payera
paierons
payerons
paierez
payerez
paieront
payeront
Conditional
Conditionnel

would pay
paierais
payerais
paierais
payerais
paierait
payerait
paierions
payerions
paieriez
payeriez
paieraient
payeraient
Present Subjunctive
Subjonctif

may pay
paie
paye
paies
payes
paie
paye
payions payiez paient
payent
Compound Tenses payer     Past Participle: payé
Present Perfect
Passé Composé

have paid
ai payé as payé a payé avons payé avez payé ont payé
Past Perfect
Plus-que-Parfait

had paid
avais payé avais payé avait payé avions payé aviez payé avaient payé
Future Perfect
Futur Antérieur

will have paid
aurai payé auras payé aura payé aurons payé aurez payé auront payé
Conditional Perfect
Conditionnel Passé

would've paid
aurais payé aurais payé aurait payé aurions payé auriez payé auraient payé
Imperative
Imperatif

pay!
paie!
paye !
payons ! payez !
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