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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 J’attends 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 être) + The past participle of the main verb Regular verbs form their past participles as follows: Verbs ending in –er: take off –er and add é e.g regardé – 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: J’ai nous avons tu as vous avez il/elle/on a ils/elles ont e.g J’ai visité le musée – I visited the museum 13 verbs form their perfect tense with être (usually involving movement / change of state): Je suis nous sommes tu es vous êtes il/elle/on est ils/elles sont e.g Je suis allé au cinéma – I went to the cinema Reflexive verbs also use être e.g Je me suis couché(e) – I went to bed N.B. With être 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 J’avais un chien – I used to have a dog For être (to be) the imperfect endings are added onto the stem ét- e.g J’ étais triste – I was sad C’était 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 être + The past participle of the main verb e.g. J’avais donné - I had given / J’ étais allé - I had gone Useful phrases to learn:

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