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The imperfect tense is a past tense that describes how things used to be, what used to happen and is used to give opinions about past events . It describes an ongoing action in the past or something that ...

The Konjunktiv I is primarily used for indirect speech. This is when the narrator/speaker communicates what someone has said eg "He said that he was going swimming" "Er sagte, dass er schwi...

Most verbs form their perfect tense with avoir. There are two main groups of verbs, however, which form their perfect tense with  être :-All reflexive verbs -A group of verbs that are mainly used to talk ...

Writing about poetry can be daunting because there is less certainty as to what is ‘right’; different people will respond to poetry in different ways. When faced with a poem, first read it through and thi...