verbes irreguliers - bend

Bend (courber, plier, fléchir, se pencher)

Infinitive: to bend

Present Simple

I bend
You bend
She/he/it/one bends
We bend
They bend


Present Progressive

I am bending
You are bending
She/he/it/one is bending
We are bending
They are bending

Present perfect

I have bent
You have bent
She/he/it/one has bent
We have bent
They have bent

Past Simple (preterit)

I bent
You bent
She/he/it/one bent
We bent
They bent

Past progressive

I was bending
You were bending
She/he/it/one was bending
We were bending
They were bending

Past Perfect

(all persons) had bent

Future simple

(all persons) will bend

Future perfect

(all persons) will have bent

Conditional

(all persons) would bend (Je me pencherais, etc)

Past Conditional

(all persons) would have bent

present participle: bending
past participle: bent

Expressions:

To bend over backwards (to help) : se mettre en quatre
I'm asking you on bended knee (lit: je te demande sur genou plié) : je t'en supplie

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hi teacher,
Please I don't know if is it just to say "I am bending or I are bending" because in the text at the first person of the progressive present of to bend you write "I are bending"
Thanks
Passy

Jonathan Lewis said...

HiPassy,

Sorry, it was just an editing mistake, of course it should be 'I am bending' NOT 'I are bending'.
Note too, that there are probably not too many situations where you would use this verb in the present progressive - use these pages as a reference.

Anonymous said...

hi teacher
please, I just want know about the different context which we can have by using the verb "to bend"