1. Take an English noun ending -ATION.
   Like INFORMATION.
2. Drop the -ATION ending to get INFORM-. (This is called the stem).
3. Replace -ATION with -ER.
4. Now you have the French verb INFORMER.
5. Learn the endings in the verb table. Each conjugation tacks on another ending to the stem. You can use these same endings with other verbs that you make using this verbobooster© technique.

• migration - migrer
• vibration - vibrer
• illustration - illustrer....

3 Steps to Learning the Endings of French Verbs

1. Go through the table ROW by ROW to learn the various tenses from the verb table of INFORMER. Recite them out loud.
2. You will notice - having already learned the conjugations of avoir that for the 24 compound tenses of informer (bottom half of the table) YOU ALREADY KNOW the first part of these conjugations (e.g. the 'I have' bit from 'I have informed', from your learning of avoir etc). Review avoir if you have any doubts.
3. Cross pollinate and further reinforce your learning by going through the table COLUMN by COLUMN. That is going DOWN each column, learning pronoun by pronoun. Less than 5% of verb tables out there in texts and on the internet allow this 'double-impact' verb learning.

3 Useful Facts when you have learnt INFORMER

1. Know the patterns of endings for 85% of French verbs - the most common conjugations - the verbs ending -ER.
2. Using the little cheat above, be able to convert and conjugate about 300+ English words ending -ATION into French.
3. Of course there are exceptions and false friends! You can learn these as you progress.

5 Ways to Super-consolidate your Verb Learning

1. Fill in the FILL in the BLANKS form. This is truly a most powerful secret weapon to French Verb Learning. Most of you will not do this however. That is just the way people are.
   
   But if you are serious about really quickly, effectively and deeply consolidating your verb learning this is one of the best tools.
   
   There is no magic pill. This is as close as you will get to a verb learning magic pill. Does not sound exciting. But it works!
2. Fill in the Fill in the Blanks Verb Worksheet from memory.
3. Recite the tables from memory whenever you get a spare moment. The more times you do this, the faster and more solid the consolidation. It will get easier the more times you do them.
4. REPEAT this procedure at the optimum learning intervals. Research shows that you should review newly learnt material after:
   • a day,
   • again after a week,
   • then after a month,
   • after 3 months and
   • after a year.
5. Follow our Daily French Verb series online.
   
   A new French verb appears every day. Each month a new family is covered so that you do one or two different families of verbs each month. So one month you will do:
   • ER verbs
   • another month IR verbs,
   • another month RE verbs
   • reflexive verbs and so on.