lire

In a sentence

• Je lis un livre sur l'histoire de France.

  I am reading a book about the history of France.

  The verb 'lire' is used in the present tense to describe the ongoing act of reading a specific book and is conjugated for the first person singular 'je'.

• Elle a lu l'article intéressant hier.

  She read the interesting article yesterday.

  Here, the verb 'lire' is used in the passé composé tense (past tense) to recount an action that occurred previously and is conjugated with 'a' (auxiliary verb avoir for third person singular 'elle') and 'lu' (past participle).

• Ils liront ce roman demain.

  They will read this novel tomorrow.

  In this sentence, 'lire' is used in the futur simple tense to indicate a planned action in the future, conjugated for third person plural 'ils' as 'liront'.