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TENSES
Mind map: French tenses
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TENSES
Future
- Simple Future
- infinitive stem + the endings for avoir
- ai as a ons ez ent
- er verbs take off the e on the stem
- irregular future stems: avoir - aur... etre - ser... aller - ir... devoir - devr... faire - fer... savoir - saur... pleuvoir - pleuvr...
- Near Future
- aller + infinitive
- Simple Future
Passe Compose
- for completed actions
- avoir or etre followed by the past participle
- add (e)(s)(es) for verbs that take etre
- REMEMBER PDO AGREEMENTS
- an object that comes before a verb needs to have endings on the verb, but not if the object comes after the verb
- Reflexives: a PDO agreement is always needed, to agree with the object not the subject
- MRS VANDERTRAMP
Imperfect
- used for: -an unfinished action - a description - a habit
- take the nous form of the present tense
- ais ais ait ions iez aient
Conditional
- hypothetical situation
- I would
- infinitive
- ais ais ait ions iez aient
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