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How do I know when to use être or avoir in the passé composé?

To form the passé composé, you need three parts. The pronoun of who or what is doing the verb e.g Je. Then we need an auxiliary verb. An auxiliary verb is the first part of two verbs we use. The auxiliary ve...
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Answered by Merlyn T. • French tutor
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What is the present subjunctive and when is it used?

The subjunctive is a ' mood ', not to be confused with ' tense ' since a mood can have more than one tense. The present form of the subjunctive is the most common in French today; there is also an imperfect ...
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Answered by Tabitha J. • French tutor
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How do you conjugate the Conditional Tense?

The endings are the same for ER, IR and RE. The endings are all the same as the Imperfect Tense endings: Je regarder ais , Tu regarder ais , Il regarder ait, Nous regarder ions , Vous regarder iez , Ils rege...
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Answered by Pauline D. • French tutor
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How do I know when to use le passé simple or l'imparfait ?

In French, both le passé simple and l'imparfait are used for past situations. However, they are not used the same way. Le passé simple is used for short, sudden actions such as : "Out of the blue, she s...
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Answered by Lou A. • French tutor
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In what way is the following sentence grammatically incorrect? - "Il faut que je fais un effort."

Certain phrases in french trigger the subjunctive mood; 'il faut que...' is an example of this. In terms of grammar, this means that 'faire' must be conjugated differently to how you would usually conjugate ...
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Answered by Gemma B. • French tutor
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