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Present Tense - what is happening now

The perfect tense is formed as follows:An auxiliary verb (avoir or ?tre) The past participle of the main verbRegular verbs form their past participles as follows:Verbs ending in ?er: take off ?er and add ?e.g regard? ? watchedVerbs ending in ?re : take off ?re and add ue.g attendu ? w

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Present Tense - what is happening now

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    1. Present Tense - what is happening now / what usually happens Most regular verbs follow these patterns: Verbs ending in er e.g. regarder: to watch je regarde nous regardons tu regardes vous regardez il/elle/on regarde ils/elles regardent Verbs ending in re e.g. attendre: to wait Jattends nous attendons tu attends vous attendez il/elle/on attend ils/elles attendent Verbs ending in ir e.g. finir: to finish je finis nous finissons tu finis vous finissez il/elle/on finit ils/elles finissent Irregular verbs follow their own patterns and must be learnt separately

    2. The perfect tense is formed as follows: An auxiliary verb (avoir or tre) + The past participle of the main verb Regular verbs form their past participles as follows: Verbs ending in er: take off er and add e.g regard watched Verbs ending in re : take off re and add u e.g attendu waited Verbs ending in ir : take off ir e.g. fini: finished Irregular verbs need to be learnt separately Perfect Tense (1) something which happened in the past

    3. Perfect Tense (2) The majority of verbs form their perfect tense with avoir: Jai nous avons tu as vous avez il/elle/on a ils/elles ont e.g Jai visit le muse I visited the museum 13 verbs form their perfect tense with tre (usually involving movement / change of state): Je suis nous sommes tu es vous tes il/elle/on est ils/elles sont e.g Je suis all au cinma I went to the cinema Reflexive verbs also use tre e.g Je me suis couch(e) I went to bed N.B. With tre verbs in the perfet tense, add e to the past participle for feminine, add s for plural and add es for feminine plural

    4. Imperfect Tense The imperfect tense can be used to describe what things were like in the past, what was happening at a given moment and what used to happen e.g Je regardais I was watching / I used to watch To form the imperfect tense you take the nous form of the present tense, remove the ons and add the endings. Imperfect tense endings are as follows: Je ais nous ions tu ais vous iez il/elle/on ait ils/elles aient e.g Javais un chien I used to have a dog For tre (to be) the imperfect endings are added onto the stem t- e.g J tais triste I was sad Ctait chouette It was great

    5. Pluperfect Tense The pluperfect tense is used to report events that took place before another event in the past / something that had happened. It is made up of 2 parts: The imperfect tense of avoir or tre + The past participle of the main verb e.g. Javais donn - I had given / J tais all - I had gone Useful phrases to learn:

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