The Future Tense in French

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)
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The Present Tense in French

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

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Pronunciation

Nasal French Vowels
Workbook: 4.6
Workbook: 32.5

/upsidedown c tilde/ (dont)
/ã/ (dans)

/ã/ (vent)
/є tilde/ (vin)

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The Past Tenses in French

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)
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Exceptions

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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

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Various forms of Appuyer

Appuyer (to support)
Essuyer
Ennuyer
consider the number of syllables

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Pronunciation

Nasal French Vowels
Workbook: 4.6
Workbook: 32.5

French Semivowels /j/ /q/ /w/

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Imperfect

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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French Personal Pronouns Les pronoms
change according to the grammatical person that they represent:
Subject
Direct Object
Indirect Object
Reflexive
Stressed

As Opposed to Impersonal Pronouns

Soi Indefinite Personal Pronoun

Specific Pronouns Les pronoms
Personal Pronouns

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
qui and que

Personal Pronouns

Personal Subject Pronouns

Interrogative Pronouns

Demonstrative Pronouns

Stressed Pronouns

Imperative and Personal Pronouns

Direct Object Pronouns

Indirect Object Pronouns

Reflexive Pronouns

Negative Pronouns

On third-person singular pronoun

Pronouns and Questions

The position of en with personal pronouns
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Answering Questions

Si! (nothing is wrong)

C’est là que (it’s there that)

C’est . . . où (it is . . . or)

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