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The imperative mood is used to give people 'orders' so it can be a fun mood to use!

Now you wouldn't give orders to yourself (je), random hes and shes (il, elle) or random groupes of peop...

AVOIR = TO HAVE

Present - eg. I have

j'ai

tu as

il/elle/on a 

nous avons

vous avez

ils...

The pieds noirs were French people who emigrated from Algeria after the conclusion of the Algerian War, resulting in Algeria's independence from France

The imperfect tense is used for an action that was ongoing in the past (Je lisais un roman = I was reading a novel). These verbs are often incomplete, hence, imperfect. An example of this...

The subjunctive mood is a very useful (and impressive!) tense to use when writing and speaking and it enables you to express yourself in many more ways, but it is difficult sometimes to get your head arou...