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The subjunctive mood in French is most commonly used following specific conjunctions and phrases that express opinion, doubt, or emotion - eg. pour que, bien que, pourvu que, je ne pense pas que, je crain...

This is a common question for the native English speaker learning French as it is a concept that isn't so widely used in the English language. The passé composé (perfect) and the imperfect both have speci...

The perfect tense is used when the action being described has been completed while the imperfect tense implies that the actions is still ongoing or does not have a definite ending.

The passé composé (sometimes called the perfect tense) is used to describe an action in the past which has finished. In order to form this tense there are three parts of the verb-the subject, the auxilary...

The "passé simple" is most often used in literary and formal writing express a completed past action. E.g. Un jour, elle tomba malade. (one day, she fell ill)

The "imparfait" on...