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This stands for Preceeding Direct Object, and is a grammatical term. Basically, you must always agree a past participle if there is a direct object that comes before it in the sentence. For example, 'il avai...

Les immigrés en situation irrégulière ont peur qu’ils soient expulsés par le gouvernement The main verb (être) is in the subjunctive because all verbs expressing emotional states such as fears, expectations,...

The perfect and imperfect tenses are both used to describe a past tense in French. The imperfect tense is often a more descriptive tense and is used to set the scene and 'frame' the more punctual perfect ten...

Speaking exams can be scary, because you are put on the spot to ask questions that, especially at A level, may take some thinking about even in your native tongue. It is inevitable that you may struggle for ...

In French, to talk in the past about an event, a precise action (that didn't last), we use the perfect tense. It is basically formed using two components : an auxiliary verb and a past participle. There are ...