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The main thing to remember here is that what's basically one word can be used in different forms - as an adjective, noun or even adverb. The most common ones are adjective and noun, so that's what we'll c...

It can be tricky to tell - and sometimes it's even a matter of choice! However, there are some simple rules that you can remember. The passé composé is used for specific events - things that happened, lik...

In French the imperfect tense is most often used when referring to a habitual action in the past, something that you used to do frequently, and to describe something that happened over an extended period ...

There is a very simple way of forming the present subjunctive in French; take the 3rd person plural present conjugation of a verb (e.g. prendre -> prennent), then remove the 'ent' ending (so 'prendre' ...

Simply, the imperfect tense is used to convey an action in the past that was taking place over a period of time e.g. 'Je regardais la télé' = 'I was watching TV' - the act of watching TV was not instantan...