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Partir - Sortir - Dormir - French Verbs

To leave - to go out - to sleep

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The French verbs partir, sortir, and dormir are part of an important set of irregular -IR verbs which share a conjugation pattern.

  Partir - to leave Sortir - to go out Dormir - to sleep
       
  Je pars à midi.
I'm leaving at noon.
Je sors tous les soirs.
I go out every night.
Je dors sur un matelas dur.
I sleep on a hard mattress.
       
  Partez-vous bientôt ?
Are you leaving soon? 
Sortez-vous maintenant ?
Are you going out now?
Dormez-vous d'un sommeil léger ?
Do you sleep lightly?
       
je pars sors dors
tu pars sors dors
il part sort dort
nous   partons sortons dormons
vous partez sortez dormez
ils partent sortent dorment
       
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