Tenses and Conjugation

French • 26 Nov 2023

Stem-changing Verbs in French

Conjugation is a fact of French-language life. There isn’t any way around it, and it’s easy to get burned in…

French • 8 Oct 2023

If you’ve been studying the subjunctive—one of the most notorious French grammatical moods—you may already know that there are plenty…

French • 9 Sep 2023

(I live in Paris.) (Her name is Marie.) What do these sentences have in common? They use the indicative mood.…

French • 21 Aug 2023

Let’s talk about the future. We can talk about topics like the trip you’re planning to France next spring. And …

French • 28 Jul 2023

As you may know, there are two main types of verbs in French: regular and irregular verbs. Today we’ll look…

French • 20 Jul 2023

The French love to live for the present. That must be why they made talking about the past so difficult!…

French • 19 Jul 2023

Être and avoir are perhaps the most commonly used French verbs–and they’re also infinitely useful in creating French’s compound verb…

French • 11 Jul 2023

The bane of most intermediate French learners’ existence is the subjunctive: The verb mood used to express desire, uncertainty and…

French • 16 Jun 2023

In French, verbs that end in -er are by far the most common, making up around 90% of all verbs…

French • 12 Jun 2023

When learning French it can be challenging to remember whether a verb is conjugated regularly or irregularly, and how the…