Présent
Present
What happens now or regularly: je parle français.
French verb conjugation
Écrire — “to write”. Every tense with audio: tap a form to hear it, or the speaker to hear the whole tense.
Il / elle and ils / elles share the same forms. With être the participle agrees with the subject: (e) for the feminine, (e)s for the plural.
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Present
What happens now or regularly: je parle français.
Perfect (completed past)
What happened and is over: hier, j’ai vu un film. The main past tense of speech.
Imperfect (ongoing past)
Description, habit or background in the past: quand j’étais petit, je jouais au foot.
Future
What will be: demain, il fera beau. In speech aller + infinitive often replaces it.
Conditional
Polite requests and imagined situations: je voudrais un café ; si j’avais le temps, je voyagerais.
Subjunctive
After wishes, necessity and feelings: il faut que tu viennes. Always after que.
Imperative
Requests, advice, orders: viens ! écoutez !
A v appears in the plural: nous écrivons, ils écrivent. It starts with a vowel: j’écris, j’ai écrit. The same with décrire.
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j’écris, tu écris, il/elle écrit, nous écrivons, vous écrivez, ils/elles écrivent.
Avoir: j’ai écrit, tu as écrit, il/elle a écrit, nous avons écrit, vous avez écrit, ils/elles ont écrit.
j’écrivais, tu écrivais, il/elle écrivait, nous écrivions, vous écriviez, ils/elles écrivaient.
j’écrirai, tu écriras, il/elle écrira, nous écrirons, vous écrirez, ils/elles écriront.
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