Infinitives Infinitif
Infinitives Infinitif
Verbs used with infinitives
commencer à a preceding infinitive
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Intensives (French)
Future Tense (French Verbs)
33.34 The Passé composé and the imperfect are used to describe actions in the past from two very difference points of view (French in Action)
Passé Composé
Expresses past actions as points on the line of time, as events that mark the progress of the story
Verbs in the passe compose answer the questions “What happened next?
Imperfect
Expresses past action as a process, a flow:P it examines action from the point of view of its duration, its extension in time
Verbs in the imperfect answer the questions “What was going on at the time? What were things like?”
Verb Tenses refer to various times (present, past, future)
Verb Moods correspond to different functions (indicative, infinitive, imperative)
Most Popular Verbs
Exceptions
Present Tense (French Verbs)
33.34 The Passé composé and the imperfect are used to describe actions in the past from two very difference points of view (French in Action)
Passé Composé
Expresses past actions as points on the line of time, as events that mark the progress of the story
Verbs in the passe compose answer the questions “What happened next?
Imperfect
Expresses past action as a process, a flow:P it examines action from the point of view of its duration, its extension in time
Verbs in the imperfect answer the questions “What was going on at the time? What were things like?”
Verb Tenses refer to various times (present, past, future)
Verb Moods correspond to different functions (indicative, infinitive, imperative)
Most Popular Verbs
Exceptions
Nasal Vowels (French)
Nasal French Vowels
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/upsidedown c tilde/ (dont)
/ã/ (dans)
/ã/ (vent)
/є tilde/ (vin)
Past Tenses (French Verbs)
33.34 The Passé composé and the imperfect are used to describe actions in the past from two very difference points of view (French in Action)
Passé Composé
Expresses past actions as points on the line of time, as events that mark the progress of the story
Verbs in the passe compose answer the questions “What happened next?
Imperfect
Expresses past action as a process, a flow:P it examines action from the point of view of its duration, its extension in time
Verbs in the imperfect answer the questions “What was going on at the time? What were things like?”
Lesser used Past Tenses of French:
Passe Simple (Literary Past)
Imperfect Subjunctive (uses a Subjunctive clause
Verb Tenses refer to various times (present, past, future)
Verb Moods correspond to different functions (indicative, infinitive, imperative)
Most Popular Verbs
Exceptions
Verb Organization (French)
Making Sense of French Verb Conjugations
Differentiate between Tense and Mood with French Verbs dummies.com
French has 14 tenses (seven simple and seven compound tenses)
French has four personal moods
Verb Tenses refer to various times (present, past, future)
-Present Tense(s)
-Past Tense(s)
-Future Tense(s)
French has 14 tenses, seven simple and seven compound tenses
Simple Tenses (Seven)
Present (Indicative) Tense
Imperfect Tense (ongoing or interrupted action from the past)
Future Tense
Conditional (would) Hypotheses
Present Subjunctive
Imperfect Subjunctive
Passe Simple (literary tense)
Compound Tenses
Pasee Compose (“ed”)
Pluperfect indicative (“had”)
Future perfect (“will have”)
Conditional perfect (“if”)
Past anterior (literary tense)
Past subjunctive
Pluperfect subjunctive (literary tense)
Verb Moods 4 personal moods correspond to different functions
(indicative, imperative, subjunctive, conditional)
Subjunctive Mood
Conditional Mood
Imperative Mood
Indicative Mood
Appuyer (French Verb)
Pronunciation (French)
Nasal French Vowels
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French Semivowels /j/ /q/ /w/
Imperfect Tense (French)
Past Perfect The “perfect” or composite past – Le temps parfait ou Passé Composé
The most commonly used past tense in the modern French language. It is used to express an action that has been completed at the time of speech, or at some (possibly unknown) time in the past.
The Passé Composé (Past Tense) is formed with a helper (also called “auxiliary”) verb followed by the past participle of the main verb. The helper verb is always either AVOIR or ÊTRE, depending on which main verb you’re using. With reflexive verbs, the helper verb is always going to be ÊTRE.
Passé composé
Forming the negative in the passé composé
Passé composé of Reflexive Verbs
Reflexive Verbs in Passé Composé (Past Tense)
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