French hides its grammar in the spelling. Drill what you can't hear.
Parle, parles, parlent sound the same. The drills make you write them — and make you choose.
You can know the conjugations and still freeze the moment you have to build a sentence yourself. Reciting a form is a different act from choosing, in conversation or in a text, between passé composé and imparfait, between indicative and subjunctive, between être and avoir. Those are choices English does not make for you.
LinguaMorpha has you make the forms yourself. It builds every form of every verb it knows, across all sixteen tenses — the passé simple and the subjonctif imparfait included — and drills them in both directions. Not only "what is vinrent?" but also: "give the passé simple, ils, of venir". So you learn to recognise forms and to produce them.
A missing accent counts as correct, with the right spelling shown — unless the slip spells another form, and Exact spelling in Settings turns this off. The spellings of the 1990 reform count as correct too. And where a form has several readings, all of them count — parlais is je and tu.
Those three choices get drills of their own: passé composé or imparfait, indicative or subjunctive, être or avoir. Not only which one is right, but why.
Stuck while reading? Type the form into Look up. Vinrent gives you venir, passé simple, ils, with every reading of an ambiguous form.
Every form has been compared against an outside source. Every difference is documented in the open, on the site.
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Who it is for
The learner on a course. Your course introduces a tense a chapter and never repeats it enough. Select the tenses and verb groups you have reached and drill them until the spelling of the form is automatic.
The reader. You want the literary tenses — the passé simple, the subjonctif imparfait — recognised on sight, and être or avoir settled without stopping to think.
The school pupil. French at secondary school: a tense per chapter, and the test asks for them all at once. Here you actually drill them — type the form for a verb, tense and person, choose être or avoir, passé composé or imparfait — and every answer is checked, accent and all, not just shown. Besides that, the agreement of adjectives and the article question — du, de la, des or de — asked the way the exam asks it. The app remembers what you got wrong and comes back to it.
How it compares. Duolingo, Babbel and Rosetta Stone give a broad experience — listening, speaking, everyday situations — and skip the depth. LinguaMorpha is the opposite: explicit grammar, the irregular part of every form made visible, and drills you choose yourself rather than a fixed curriculum. It has no speaking practice and no listening comprehension; it works well beside those apps, doing what they leave out.
The verb, in full
Conjugation · Regularity · Reference sheet — with the irregular parts marked where they depart from the verb's own group.
Five ways to study
Grammar lessons, Theory, Practice Sets, Self Study and Tests — the same five in every course, sharing one catalogue and one adaptive engine, so an answer given in any of them counts in all of them. What each one is for →
What the app does
Type any form and see what it is. You read vécut, naquirent or eussent, or heard something that sounded like fasse, and are not sure which verb it is. Look up searches every conjugated form of every verb in the course — over 900 verbs in sixteen tenses — as well as every noun, adjective, phrase and word, and tells you the verb, the tense and the person, with every reading of an ambiguous form. Accents are optional, capitals are ignored, a word in your own language finds the French, and a misspelling still lands on the nearest headwords. Tap the result and the verb opens at that tense.
The marking scheme. In the conjugation tables, red falls on just the part of a form that departs from the verb's group — the è of j'achète, the stem of je ferai — and a form that is red from end to end, such as je suis, has to be learned as a whole. An underline marks the ending the pattern predicts. In the compound tenses the past participle carries the mark, so pris and ouvert are red wherever they appear.
Verb groups. Fourteen groups in five sections, each tickable in Select verb groups: the three classic groups and the pronominal verbs; the spelling changes (mangeons, commençons, essaie); the stem changes (achète, préfère, appelle); the auxiliary (avoir or être); and the fully irregular verbs and the verbs with an irregular subjonctif.
The verb detail. Tap any verb for a tabbed screen — Conjugation · Regularity · Reference sheet — with its translation in the header. Regularity names the stem behind each tense and shows in amber the stems you have to memorise; on Conjugation, a filter hides the tenses that follow the pattern. Reference sheet is a printable one-page PDF of the verb in every tense.
Choose what is in play. Sixteen tenses, each switchable on its own in Select tenses — the everyday ones first, the literary ones when your reading needs them — and the fourteen verb groups tickable one by one, so the drills follow the course you are on rather than running ahead of it.
Drills. Produce the conjugation and Recognise the conjugation, and three choice drills that ask what a sentence needs: Passé composé or imparfait, Indicatif or subjonctif and Être or avoir. When you answer a conjugation question correctly, the feedback can show a translation of the exact form you gave; where the app has no translation of its own, devices with Apple Intelligence (iOS 26 and macOS 26) can supply one.
Grammar lessons. If you would rather follow a path, over fifty step-by-step lessons take you through the same ground in order.
Sessions that work on what needs work. Every answer is recorded on your device. The words for each session are picked from your selection on the basis of your answer history and your Learning pace, and an Incorrect answers switch limits a session to what you got wrong before. Nouns and adjectives get the same treatment as verbs: gender, plural and agreement drills, so that le tour and la tour, bijoux and trous, stop being guesses.
Speech and dictionaries
French forms are read aloud with the voices Apple provides on your device, in Standard, Enhanced and Premium quality, just as for Spanish. Verb and noun detail screens carry a Dictionaries row that looks the word up in Linguee, WordReference and Reverso — in a browser sheet inside the app on iPhone and iPad, and in your web browser on the Mac.
On Apple Watch, the companion app shows conjugation tables for the verbs you choose — the essential verbs at first, any verb in the course after that — in the tenses you choose.
For the teacher
What a pupil does with it. The app does not replace the course book; it is what the pupil opens beside it. Sixteen tenses and fourteen verb groups each switch on and off separately, so the drills can be limited to what the chapter has introduced — this week's passé composé, not next year's subjonctif. Every session picks its words from the answer history, and the Incorrect answers switch keeps a session to what went wrong before. The reports show which tenses and words a pupil has practised, how well, and what has stuck.
The question the test asks. Knowing a conjugation is one thing; knowing which form a sentence needs is the other, and that is what the test asks. The choice drills do exactly that — être or avoir, passé composé or imparfait, indicatif or subjonctif, du / de la / des / de, the form of the adjective — with an explanation after every answer. And spelling counts: mangé is not manger, finissions not finissons.
A set for the class. A practice set is a session you put together yourself — these verbs, those tenses, this kind of exercise — and share as a file, by AirDrop, mail or the school's learning platform. The pupils import it and drill the same material. For next week's test, or for the irregular participles half the class still has not got. For a fixed route, the fifty-three grammar lessons in fourteen modules cover the same ground in order.
Hearing what you type. Every form is read aloud with the device's French voices, at an adjustable speed; a pupil who cannot tell parlé, parlait and parlez apart by ear hears them side by side. The detail screens link to Linguee, WordReference and Reverso — the teacher chooses which.
What it is not. No teacher dashboard, no accounts, no class administration, no results sent to the school. That is a choice: a pupil's answers stay on the pupil's own device, and there is no server for them to go to. To see how a pupil is doing, ask to see the report — or have it exported as a PDF. No speaking practice and no listening comprehension: that is what the lesson is for.
How we know the forms are right
A conjugation app is as good as its forms. So they do not rest on the author but on comparison with a source a teacher knows, and on writing down every difference.
Every verb form against Wiktionary. All 36,872 forms the app produces for its 900-odd verbs — every person, tense and mood, the passé simple and the subjonctif imparfait included — have been compared with Wiktionary's conjugation tables. 36,871 agree letter for letter. One differs: je vaux, where Wiktionary writes vaus and the app follows the grammar. What the app deliberately leaves out — the passé simple of absoudre and frire, the personal forms of pleuvoir, the imperative of devoir — is in the register, with the reason.
Every difference is on paper. The register can be read on the Open questions page, with the decided differences. It also guards the future: a change to the app that moves one more form away from the source fails the check until someone has judged the difference.
What this does not prove. That a form is right says nothing about the translations, the example sentences and the explanations in the choice drills; those were written by the author and have not been read by a teacher of French. Anyone who finds a mistake in them helps the app most by reporting it — Support reads every message.
For the school
One price per pupil, no subscription. French is a one-time purchase in the App Store, on the pupil's own iPhone, iPad or Mac; with the same Apple ID it is unlocked on all of them at once. No annual licence, no renewal.
21 days free first, for the whole class. Every pupil can use the complete French course for 21 days without paying. That is enough for a trial with a class before anyone buys.
No accounts, no data. The app asks for no name, no email address, no age. Answers, progress and settings stay on the device; there is no server, no analytics, no tracking. For the school's data-protection review that is the short answer: no personal data is processed. The long answer is the privacy policy.
One app for the modern and the classical languages. The same app holds Spanish — over 1,100 verbs in sixteen tenses, the subjuntivo included — and Latin — every declension, the classical verb system, a sentence parser — with the same drills, reports, practice sets and grammar lessons, and the same rule that nothing leaves the device. Each language unlocks on its own, or all three together as Unlock all languages.
iPhone, iPad and Mac. The same app on all three, with the same tables and drills: the school iPad in class, the pupil's own phone on the train, the Mac at the desk. One purchase covers every device on the same Apple ID; progress stays on each device, since there is no account to sync it through. Not for Android, Windows or Chromebook.
Three interface languages. The app, the guide and this site come in English, Dutch and Spanish; the pupil chooses, independently of the course. An international school or a bilingual stream runs the app in English.
Purchase by the school. A school edition that the school buys itself through Apple School Manager — licences the school owns, reassigned to the new class every year, with Apple's education discount from twenty copies — is possible, but does not exist yet. We will build it as soon as a school wants to buy it; if yours does, say so through the Support page. Until then the answer is: the pupil's own device, one purchase, and 21 days free for the whole class.
The catalogue
- over 900 verbs across the three groups
- over 1,400 nouns, with gender, plural and example sentences
- over 250 adjectives, with all four forms for agreement in gender and number
- adverbs, pronouns, numerals and prepositions, each with its own hub
- over 200 set phrases, plus the example sentences of the verbs and nouns
The grammar, in detail
Exactly which tenses, groups and patterns the course covers — open for the reference
Verb grammar
Full conjugation for the three groups — 1st (-er, parler), 2nd (-ir with the -iss- infix, finir) and 3rd (everything else: prendre, partir, mettre; the fully irregular verbs such as être, aller, faire and venir have a group of their own in Select verb groups).
Sixteen tenses, each switchable on its own in Select tenses — all four moods, including the literary tenses you will meet in reading.
Indicatif — simple
- Présent
- Imparfait
- Futur Simple
- Passé Simple — literary
Indicatif — compound
- Passé Composé
- Plus-que-parfait
- Futur Antérieur
- Passé Antérieur — literary (j'eus parlé), after quand, lorsque, dès que or après que
Conditionnel
- Conditionnel Présent
- Conditionnel Passé
Subjonctif
- Subjonctif Présent
- Subjonctif Passé
- Subjonctif Imparfait — literary
- Subjonctif Plus-que-parfait — literary (que j'eusse parlé)
Impératif
- Impératif Présent — tu / nous / vous only
- Impératif Passé — aie fini avant midi, the same three persons
Noun grammar
Gender (le / la) and plural formation across the catalogue: the regular -s; the -x after -eau, -au and -eu, and on the seven -ou nouns that take it (bijoux, genoux, …) while every other -ou noun takes -s; the -al → -aux pattern and some -ail nouns; and compound nouns. The gender groups cover masculine/feminine pairs (chien / chienne), nouns with one form for both genders (un / une élève), and the nouns whose meaning changes with gender (le tour / la tour).
Meaning flashcards show each noun with its article, so gender is drilled alongside meaning rather than after it. Pick the correct article drills le or la; Which article? asks which article a whole sentence needs — definite, indefinite, partitive or bare de. Singular / Plural and Alternate gender pairs complete the set.
Adjective and adverb grammar
Agreement across gender and number, sorted into seven agreement classes — including the irregular feminines -eux → -euse, -f → -ve and -er → -ère, the doubled consonants (bon → bonne) and the pairs to learn by heart (beau → belle). An Agreement drill asks for the form that goes with a given noun. The adverbs hub explains the -ment derivation and drills the meaning of derived, irregular and lexical adverbs.
Numerals include the counting-in-twenties pattern of soixante-dix, quatre-vingts and quatre-vingt-dix, with a drill on when vingt and cent take an -s. Prepositions have a contrast drill for the pairs learners confuse: pour / par, en / dans, à / de and depuis / pendant.
Pronouns have an Object pronoun drill — the direct, indirect or reflexive pronoun the sentence needs — and an Agreement drill that matches celui or le mien to a noun's gender and number.
Try it
Every language is open for 21 days with every feature unlocked. After that, unlock French on its own or buy Unlock all languages — a one-time purchase, no subscription, no ads, no account. Your answers stay on your device.
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