Verb (Verb)

The Occitan verbs fall in three conjugational pattern discerned by the endings of the present infinitive.
 

I conjugation:  -ar	II conjugation:  -ir	III conjugation:  -re, , -er, -r
amar to love comprar  to buy hablar  to speak passar  to go, pass	dormir  to sleep sentir  to hear pedir  to ask finir   to finish	batre  to beat tèner   to hold far (faire)   to do, make dever (deure) must

There is a wide variety of compound tenses. The one most used is the present perfect, constructed with the auxialiaries èstre (èsser) or aver and the past participle. As a general rule, transitive verbs have aver as an auxilliary verb, whereas untransitive and pronominal verbs have èstre. Unlike French and Catalan, èstre is its own auxilliary: soi estat versus French j'ai été and Catalan he estat.

Another particularity of Occitan conjugation is the use of surcompound tenses to indicate that an action was done at least once in the past, at an indeterminate time, yet which left an impact in the mind of the speaker:

• Aquel òme, l'ai agut vist dins la carrièra.

I happened to see him that man in the street.  => I think I could recognize him.
• D'estruci, n'ai agut manjat.

I've had the opportunity to eat ostrich-meat.  =>  I know what it tastes like.