French Auxiliaries Verbs
Avoir to have
Être to be

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Aller to go
Tenir to hold
Venir to come
faire to make or to do
Vouloir to want
Devoir to have to
Pouvoir to be able to
Dire to say
Voir to see
Savoir to know
Falloir to be necessary

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Non Irregular Verb General Conjugation Rules

Charles Aznovour

Et Moi Dans Mon Coin

Perhaps this is a song about personal pronouns

Moi
Toi
Etc

After another morning studying French conjunctions, I wondered if this would ever come together – if I will ever learn French

Then I heard the familiar melody of a French song Si j’avais un marteau, aka “If I had a hammer” and recognized the si (if) clause

Conditional Perfect Tense – If I had a hammer
and
Conditional Tense – I would hammer in the morning

Si j’avais un marteau (If I had a hammer)
Je cognerais le jour (I would knock the day)
ce serait le bonheur (that would be happiness)

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Visual Education French Vocabulary Cards

je souffrirai, fut. (Futur simple)
souffrant, pres. p. (Présent Participe)
souffert, p.p. (Passé Participe)
je souffre, pre. ind. (Présent Indicatif)
je souffris, p.d. (passé défini) passé simple

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Les Conjonctions
Conjunctions provide a link between similar words or groups of words, such as nouns, verbs, people, etc
Coordinating conjunctions join words and groups of words with an equal value.
Subordinating conjunctions join dependent clauses to main clauses

pourvu que (provided that)

à moins que (unless)

bien que (although)

use of prepositions with place-names
contractions with a and de with la and les

à (at)
de (of)
en (in)

avant and arrière are prepositions and therefore do not agree with nouns
droit and gauche are regular adjectives that do agree

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Conditional Perfect Tense in French Conditionnel passé
One of Seven Complex French Verb Tenses

The conditionnel passé (past conditional) is used to express what would have taken place in the past had some other action, event, or situation occurred.

How does this compare to:
Simple Conditional Tense
and
Complex Conditional Perfect

Si j’avais un marteau – Claude François

Verb Tenses refer to various times (present, past, future)
Verb Moods correspond to different functions (indicative, infinitive, imperative)
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Claude François

After another morning studying French conjunctions, I wondered if this would ever come together – if I will ever learn French

Then I heard the familiar melody of a French song Si j’avais un marteau, aka “If I had a hammer” and recognized the si (if) clause

Conditional Perfect Tense – If I had a hammer
and
Conditional Tense – I would hammer in the morning

Si j’avais un marteau (If I had a hammer)
Je cognerais le jour (I would knock the day)
ce serait le bonheur (that would be happiness)

Lyrics and Translation

French Songs
Elements of Grammar
Learning French

Si Clause (Le conditionnel)

There are three si clauses in French

Si + Present, Future Simple

Si + Imperfect, Conditional

Si + Pluperfect, Past Conditional

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Conditional Mood (Le conditionnel)
Subjunctive: express desires, doubts, the unknown, the abstract, and emotions
Indicative: express actions, events, and states that are believed to be true and concrete
Conditional: describe events that are not guaranteed to occur; often they are dependent on certain conditions

Si clauses, also known as conditionals or conditional sentences, are if-then constructions that express a condition to be met in order for a certain result.
They are divided into three types, depending on whether the condition is
likely,
unlikely, or
impossible
lawlessfrench.com

The Si (If) Clause
The conditional in intentional expressions

The Essential Guide to the French Conditional Tense fluentu.com

Conditional Sentences cliffnotes.com

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