Valoir conjugation: to be worth in every French tense (free PDF download)
The French verb valoir (to be worth) is a useful everyday verb (number 110 of the 150 on this site). It is an irregular verb of the 3rd group with its own stems: je vaux, nous valons, and a future stem in vaudr- (je vaudrai). In compound tenses it takes avoir (j’ai valu), with the past participle valu. Below you will find every tense, example sentences and a free printable PDF.
Intransitive (no object), transitive (direct object)
Frequency
No. 110 of the 150 most common French verbs
The endings are in bold. Tense names are given in French with the English equivalent in parentheses; pronouns and verb forms stay in French, as you will see and hear them.
In compound tenses valoir takes avoir (j’ai valu). The participle valu agrees only with a direct object placed before the verb.
Irregular stems
Learn the stems, not the endings: the present is je vaux / nous valons / ils valent, and the future and conditional use vaudr- (je vaudrai, je vaudrais).