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The perfect and imperfect tenses are both used to describe a past tense in French. The imperfect tense is often a more descriptive tense and is used to set the scene and 'frame' the more punctual perfect ten...

The perfect tense (in french le passé composé) is used to describe completed actions, whereas the imperfect tense (l'imparfait) refers to an event that used to happen, or an action that cannot be described a...

Firstly, the subjunctive is a mood just like the conditional or the indicative. Within the subjunctive there are four tenses; the present, the past, the imperfect and the pluperfect. The latter two tenses ar...

Speaking exams can be scary, because you are put on the spot to ask questions that, especially at A level, may take some thinking about even in your native tongue. It is inevitable that you may struggle for ...

The conditional mood is one of the more straightforward tenses to conjugate in the French language. It is the equivalent of using ‘would’ in English. For example, ‘I would go’ – ‘j’irais’. To form the condit...