Flashcard: Mastering French Present and Past Tenses — 14 carte

Present Tense — formation?

Conjugate regular verbs according to their group patterns with subject agreement.

Present Tense — purpose?

Describe current actions, habits, truths.

Passé Composé — usage?

Express completed past actions with auxiliary + past participle.

Regular -ER verb endings?

e, es, e, ons, ez, ent.

Imparfait — formation?

Use

Passé Composé — formation?

Auxiliary verb + past participle.

Imparfait — usage?

Describe ongoing, habitual, or background past actions.

Imparfait — use?

Habitual, background, ongoing past actions.

Future Tense — formation?

Add endings (-ai, -as, -a, -ons, -ez, -ont) to the infinitive or stem.

Future Tense — formation?

Infinitive + future ending.

Conditional — usage?

Express hypothetical or polite actions, formed from the future stem + imperfect endings.

Conditional — role?

Express wishes, possibilities, hypothetical situations.

Subjunctive — formation?

Use third-person plural present + subjunctive endings (-e, -es, -e, -ions, -iez, -ent).

Subjunctive — formation?

Present tense stem + subjunctive endings.