French Tenses

• What is L’impératif used for?

  Is used to give orders or to convey urgent messages
• What are the rules of L’impératif?

  • Only uses tu, nous and vous
  • An exclamation is always at the end
  • When conjugating -er verbs with tu, the s is dropped
• What is L’imparfait?

  • Description of a past situation
  • Repetition of past habit
  • Situation with a duration
• How is l’imparfait conjugated?

  • Conjugate the verb with nous
  • Remove the ending (-ons)
  • Add the imparfait endings
• What is Le Passé Composé?

  The past tense
• What verbs conjugate with Être in Le Passé Composé?

  Movement verbs (passer being an exception)
• List all the verbs that conjugate with Être in Le passé Composé?

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• What are the verbs that conjugate with Être in passé composé?

  Descendre

  Rentrer

  Monter

  Revenir

  Sortir

  Venir

  Aller

  Naître

  Devenir

  Entrer

  Rester

  Tomber

  Retourner

  Arriver

  Mourir

  Partir

  Passer
• What is Le Futur Proche used for?

  is used for the near future
• What is the format of futur proche

  Aller + infinitive verb
• What is the format of futur simple

  subject + verb+ending (group 1 & 2 are infinitive)
• What is Le conditionel present?

  It‘s a mood used to express a wish, a hypothesis, an advice, or an action subject to a condition.
• What is the format of Le conditionel present?

  • stem of the verb (infinitive form) + endings
  • for the 3rd group the stem of the verb in future tense