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Each French noun (an object word such as 'boy', 'table' or 'river') has a gender - they are either masculine or feminine. This may seem strange to a native English speaker as this is not a feature of our ...

The perfect tense is used to describe a one-off action which occurred in the past. It requires three components: SUBJECT (je/tu/il/elle/on/nous/vous/ils/elles) + AUXILIARY (present tense form of avoir) + ...

Many methods will tell you that verbs of movement take être in the perfect tense but that's not very helpful, since many verbs of movement do not use “être”, such as “danser (to dance), sauter (to jump), ...

There is in fact an imperfect subjunctive, however it is rarely used and can only normally be found in technical pieces of literature or criticism. As a result, the present subjunctive is what would be ne...

Like other regular verbs that end in 'er', all you need to do is take off the 'r', which leaves you with 'joue'. 'I play' would be translated as 'je joue' in French.