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What is the 'conditional' in French, and how do you use it?

What does it mean? It’s one of the four ‘moods’ in French (the others are: indicative, subjunctive and imperative) Because it’s a mood, it can be used in a number of tenses. Simplest (and the one you'll most...
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Answered by Morna C. • French tutor
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How do I differentiate between masculine and female nouns?

It is often difficult to tell if a French noun is feminine or masculine. There are some tricks to knowing the difference though. Feminine nouns usually end in 'e' or 'ion' whereas for masculine nouns it's 'a...
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Answered by India S. • French tutor
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When do you use avoir and when do you use être in the past tense?

Most verbs use avoir, but there are a specific group of verbs that take être as their auxiliary verb in not just the past tense, but in all of the compound tenses (such as the pluperfect tense). A nice way t...
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Answered by Danielle M. • French tutor
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How can I learn new vocabulary more easily?

So first of all it's good to find out what kind of learner you are; visual, kinesthetic or auditory. If, like me you are a visual learner you will find that new words are hard to memorise unless you have see...
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Answered by Valentina O. • French tutor
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How do I form the conditional?

It's easier than you think! The basic rule for forming the conditional is ' future stem + imperfect tense ending'. So to form the conditional you need to take the future stem (which is usually the infinitve)...
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Answered by Jess L. • French tutor
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