Courir conjugation: to run in every French tense (free PDF download)
Learn courir, “to run”, and you add a very practical verb to your French: it is a high-frequency French verb (number 72 of the 150 on this site). It is an irregular verb of the 3rd group with its own stems: je cours, nous courons, and a future stem in courr- (je courrai). In compound tenses it takes avoir (j’ai couru), with the past participle couru. Below you will find every tense, example sentences and a free printable PDF.
Intransitive (no object), transitive (direct object)
Frequency
No. 72 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 courir takes avoir (j’ai couru). The participle couru agrees only with a direct object placed before the verb.
Irregular stems
Learn the stems, not the endings: the present is je cours / nous courons / ils courent, and the future and conditional use courr- (je courrai, je courrais).