The conditional mood is formed by adding the following endings to the future stem of the relevant verb. Nota Bene: The endings used for the conditional mood are identical to those used for the imperfect tense. The conditional mood conveys the idea of ‘would do’ in English and is used in the following situations: -As…
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Past Historic Tense
For regular verbs, the imperfect tense is formed from the stem of the 2nd person pluralnous form of the present tense and one of the three possible endings: For all verbs ending in -er For regular -ir and -re verbs For some irregular verbs, usually ending in -re and -ir The past historic is only used…
PluPerfect Tense
The pluperfect is a compound tense consisting of the imperfect tense of either of the auxiliary verbs avoir and être followed by the past participle of the relevant verb. e.g. Elles étaient sorties quand il est passé, which means , They were out when he passed by. The pluperfect is used for past action and…
Imperfect Tense
The imperfect tense is formed from the stem of the 2nd person plural nous form of the present tense and the following endings: *the verb être is the only exception to this pattern Nota Bene: -The example in the table above shows how to conjugate the verb jeter- to throw. Firstly, it shows the verb in…
Future Tense
The future tense is formed by adding the following endings to the future stem: Pronoun Ending je ai tu as il / elle / on a nous ons vous ez ils / elles ont The Future stem of Regular Verbs The infinitive form of the verb represents the future stem for all regular verbs ending…
Present Tense
REGULAR VERBS The vast majority of verbs in french are regular and, therefore, belong to one of the three aforementioned groups (i.e. -er verbs, -ir verbs, -re verbs). Some verbs contain slight exceptions to the regular present tense pattern. These verbs manifest an irregular pattern in their stem when used in the 1st, 2nd and 3rd person…