Conjugation is also different. The present indicative of the first-person singular, the third-person singular and the third-person plural are all conjugated in the same manner, which results in phrases of the type, ""j'menons les oies"" ("I lead the geese"). There is also frequent truncation: ""i m'nons les oies"" ("they lead the geese"). Tense endings are also different from standard French, as in the third person plural imperfect ending "-aient" is replaced by "-aint", e.g., ""i's étaint"" instead of ""ils étaient"" ("They used to be").