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Verb Tenses (French)

Verb Tenses
7 Simple
7 Compound

Differentiate between Tense and Mood with French Verbs dummies.com
Conjugations conjugation-fr.com

Exceptions

Compound Verb Tense
French Verbs for Dummies
10 Simple Verbs and 10 Compound Vervbs

Indicative
Present (Présent)
Present Perfect
Simple Past (Passé simple) The preterite, or past historic – le préterite ou passé simple
Past Perfect The “perfect” or composite past – Le temps parfait ou Passé Composé

Imperfect

Plus-que-parfait (The Pluperfect)
Future
The Future Tense (do not confuse with the Near Future – Le futur proche)
Past Future

Subjunctive
Present
Past
Imperfect
Pluperfect

Conditional (Conditionnel)
Present Conditional
Past Conditional
First Past
Second Past

Imperative (Imperatif)
Present
Past

Infinitive (Infinitif)
Present
Past

Participle
Present
Past

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Present
Imperfect

Future
Subjective (Present Subjective)
Conditional
Passé composé Past Historic
Impératif présent

Present participle

Present Tense
il y a . . . que, ca fait . . . que
depuis (since)

Present Indicative
Verb Patterns

Immediate Future Tense

Immediate Past Tense
venir de + infinitive

Verbs
Elements of Grammar

Pronouns (French)

Specific Pronouns Les pronoms

Pronoun List Specific Pronouns
Personal Pronouns
Impersonal Pronouns

Personne and rien in simple tenses
used as subjects rein ne lui plaît (nothing pleases him)
used as objects of a preposition je n’ai besoin de rien (I do not need anything)
used as direct objects je ne cherche rien (I seek nothing)

Object Pronouns
Direct Object Pronouns (pronoms objets directs) replace the people or things that
receive the action of the verb in a sentence
Indirect Object Pronouns (pronoms objets indirects) replace the people in a sentence
to/for whom the action of the verb occurs
Position of Pronoun (Personal Pronoun, Direct and Indirect Object Pronouns)
Verbs + à + noun indirect object pronouns
(direct object pronouns require no preposition between verb and noun)
The future and object pronoun

y and en
y to refer to a place to which one is going
en to refer to a place from which one is coming
A and en with means of transportation
en when talking about riding in enclosed conveyance
a to discuss means of transporation requiring standing or straddling
(a cheval, a ski, a bicyclette)

Relative Pronouns who, which, that, whom and where
qui and que and dont
ce qui, ce que, ce qu’, ce dont
qui, que, and dont

Personal Subject Pronouns
Interrogative Pronouns
Demonstrative Pronouns
Stressed Pronouns
Imperative and Personal Pronouns

Reflexive Pronouns
Negative Pronouns

On third-person singular pronoun

Pronouns and Questions

Nouns
Elements of Grammar

Questions (French)

Asking Directions (32.6)

Questions using intonation, inversion and est-ce qui

Indirect Questions
ce que c’est what is it
qui c’est who is it

qu’est-ce que (what is it that it is)
qu’est-ce que c’est?

Ou? (Where)
C’est ou ça?

Quel? (What)
What’s going on?
Qu’est-ce qui se passe?
Qu’est-ce qui’il ya a?
de quoi s’agit-il?
Quelle? (What)
Quoi? (What)
C’est quoi ça? What is that?
Je ne sais quoi I do not know what (A quality that can not be described or named easily)

Quand? (When)
When did you leave?
Quand es-tu parti ?

Qui? (Who)
Who is it?
Qui est-ce?

Comment? (How)
How is he?
Comment est-il?

Combien? (How Much)
How much is it?
C’est Combien?

Questions
Elements of Grammar