The Imperfect verb tense (l’imparfait) in French is used to express continuous action in the past. If we use the English verb “to give” as an example, the meanings of the French Imperfect version of this verb would be “I was giving,” “I used to give,” “I kept on giving,” or even “I gave.” There…
The Future Simple tense of regular verbs was covered in a previous post here. That post explained how to find the future simple stem of a regular -er, -ir or -re verb, as well as the appropriate future simple endings. This post, however, is a list of the most important verbs whose future simple stems…
The Near Future tense, known as “Le Futur Proche” in French, is one of the easiest ways to talk about the future. If we take the English verb “to give,” an example of the Near Future would be “I am going to give.” The idea is that the action will happen fairly soon. Hence the…
The present tense in French covers three different tenses in English. If you take the verb “to speak,” the French present tense covers these three meanings: Regular -er verbs endings Regular -er verbs conjugation example: Parler – to speak Donner – to give Regular -ir verbs Regular -ir verb endings: Regular -ir verbs conjugation example…
The future simple (“le futur simple” in French) is a verb tense that enables you to talk about things that will happen in the future. In English, it corresponds to usages such as “I will” (do something), “I’ll” (do something), “I will not” (do something) or “I won’t” (do something). To conjugate a verb in…