Verbs with their subject
The “Verbs” option writes the verbs of the cards and games with the pronoun of their picture: “he is cutting”, “she is jumping” or “they are dancing”.
In front of a picture of an action, we ask the child “What is he doing?”. The expected answer is “he is cutting”. The card, however, said “to cut”. The “Verbs” option, in the Format panel of the cards, the bingo, the memory game, the dominoes, the Lynx, the Dobble and the goose game, now writes the verbs with the subject the picture shows. The card shows the sentence the child says. Since 20 October 2026, this option is withdrawn: a verb is conjugated in a sentence, with its subject, and the resources set to “Conjugated” write the infinitive.
Three settings
“Infinitive” is the starting setting. It leaves the verbs as in the lexicon, and the resources already made do not change. “Conjugated” writes each verb with the pronoun of its picture: “he is cutting” under a boy or two hands, “she is jumping” under a girl, “they are dancing” under a couple. In English the option uses the present continuous, the usual answer to these questions.
The voice of the card says the same form. The nouns and adjectives of the resource do not change. A French verb said only with « il », such as « il neige », stays as it is.
The pronoun of each picture
In the window of a verb, “Pictures” part, each picture carries its pronoun: he, she, it or they. The choice applies to every resource. It helps for a photo of the class, which Lexikit cannot read, or for a picture you see differently, such as “it” under two hands. If you choose another picture for a word of the resource, the pronoun follows the new picture. Since 20 October 2026, the pronoun is no longer chosen on the picture.
At first, each pictogram of ARASAAC, the picture bank of Lexikit, takes the pronoun of what it shows. I looked one by one at the 3,561 pictures of the verbs of the lexicon, in French, English, Spanish and German. 382 show a girl or a woman acting and take “she”. 166 show several people acting together and take “they”, as do ten that show only girls or women. The others take “he”.
I had first considered giving every verb a picture of a boy, so that “he” would fit everywhere. I set this idea aside. The main picture of a word also serves the picture book and the worksheets, and every action of the lexicon would have been done by boys. Many verbs also have no picture of a boy in ARASAAC.
A word that keeps its form
A word can keep another form in one resource, in its window, “In this resource” part, on the “Verb form” row. Two menus make it up. “Pronoun” shows the pronoun the card writes, “she” under the girl who jumps. It also offers the other pronouns and “No pronoun”. The pronoun of the picture follows the picture: if you choose another one in the resource, it changes with it. “Tense” offers the infinitive and the tenses of the language. Under the girl who jumps, the simple past gives “she jumped”. “Infinitive” leaves this word as it is in the lexicon. Since 20 October 2026, “Verb form” only shows in resources of sentences, with the “Tense” menu alone.
Why the themes keep the infinitive
Another idea was to change the themes, with verbs already conjugated and cards « il », « un » and « une » to build sentences. In a bingo or a memory game, « il » and « un » would become cards to draw, the same in all 71 themes. Without its subject, a conjugated French verb also reads as a noun. Of the 130 verbs of the French themes, 26 give a word that already exists in the lexicon, such as « tombe », « joue », « danse » or « plante ». The lexicon and the themes keep the infinitive, and the resource chooses the form.
What stays in the infinitive
The worksheets keep the infinitive, because writing “he is cutting” is another exercise than writing a word. The translation written under the word, when the resource shows a second language, also stays in the infinitive. In French the option writes « il coupe », and in Spanish « él corta ».
A verb you add to the lexicon takes “he” until you choose the pronoun of its pictures. Some pictures suit the question poorly. The picture of « tomber » shows a falling glass. Before printing, look at the pictures of the verbs and change those that show no one.
