{"id":52261,"date":"2026-05-11T15:19:51","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T15:19:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=52261"},"modified":"2026-05-11T15:19:52","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T15:19:52","slug":"french-irregular-verbs-valoir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/french-irregular-verbs-valoir\/","title":{"rendered":"French: irregular verbs: valoir"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2>Self-tutoring about irregular French verbs: the tutor mentions valoir.<\/h2>\n<p>\nThe following is according to my understanding.<\/h2>\n<p>\nValoir means <em>to be worth<\/em>. It might be as irregular a verb as you get in French. It&#8217;s the commonly-used verbs that tend to be irregular, and people seem to like to discuss how much things are worth. For example, &#8220;That&#8217;s worth five dollars,&#8221; might be said as <em>&Ccedil;a vaut cinq dollars.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\nTo a learner of French, valoir has a few characteristics that might make it stand out. For instance, in present indicative, the je, tu, and il\/elle forms don&#8217;t sound like the infinitive. Its present indicative conjugation is je\/tu vaux, il\/elle, vaut, nous valons, vous valez, ils\/elles valent.<\/p>\n<p>\nSo, the stem of valoir changes in present indicative. Yet, that&#8217;s not all. Its future stem is vaudr- (<em>&ccedil;a vaudra,<\/em> for instance).<\/p>\n<p>\nFor someone curious about French, <em>valoir<\/em> might be worth a look. (Le verbe valoir peut-&ecirc;tre vaut un coup d&#8217;oeil:)\n<\/p>\n<p>\nSource:<\/p>\n<p>Dubois, M-M., Keen, D.J., Shuey, B., Corbeil, J-C, Crocker, L.G. (1983). <em>Larousse&#8217;s French-English Dictionary.<\/em> Pocket Books New York.<\/p>\nJack of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\">Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane,<\/a> Campbell River, BC.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Self-tutoring about irregular French verbs: the tutor mentions valoir. The following is according to my understanding. Valoir means to be worth. It might be as irregular a verb as you get in French. It&#8217;s the commonly-used verbs that tend to &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/french-irregular-verbs-valoir\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">French: irregular verbs: valoir<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[4193],"class_list":["post-52261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-french","tag-irregular-verbs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52261"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52271,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52261\/revisions\/52271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}