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<past and future tense rule>

barren goblet
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believe for conversational french, you would use futur proche and passe compose most
for passe compose, you take the auxiliary verb, etre ou avoir (usually avoir, except for the dr mrs vandertramp verbs) and then conjugate it to present tense. FOr the second part of passe compose, you take the verb you want to conjugate and change it to a participe passe. (if the verb is from 1st groupe, meaning ending in er in infinitif, take the root and make the er into é. with the exception of aller. For example parler --> parlé. And then for 2nd group, meaning verbs ending in ir, you take the root and change the ending to i. for example, finir -- fini. For the rest of the verbs that dont end in er or ir you have to memorize. and i think you have to add extra e to participe passe if it`s femnin and s if pluriel.
Now for futur proche, i believe you just take the verb aller and conjugate it to present, then take the veb you want to conjugate and make it to its infinitif form and tada. For example je vais prendre le bus

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idk if that was confusing-

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also might contain misinformation sorry

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heres some examples haha

  1. (passe compose) je suis allee au parc
  2. (futur proche) je vais aller au parc
  3. (passee compose) j'ai mange un sandwich
  4. (futur proche) je vais manger un sandwich
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i realise i didnt explain this very well. You can look into this by searching "passé composé" and "futur proche" on google

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woah citrons you've been typing for a long time-
cooking up a gigantic essay?

storm stone
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Mostly about past participle agreement, which can actually be fairly complex

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one sec cursedtrons

barren goblet
storm stone
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You got a lot right in there. Biggest thing was agreement of the past participle, which can admittedly be a tricky thing. I'll also mention that even among 3rd group (irregular) verbs, there are a lot of patterns for past participles.

Typically verbs conjugated with avoir in compound tenses don't agree. There are cases where they do, I'll touch on those later.

Verbs conjugated with être do have to agree though. These verbs are all pronominal verbs, and a handful of other verbs, typically intransitive verbs of movement. DR & MRS VANDERTRAMP or La maison d'être are good mnemonic devices for these, and you can google them real easy. They have to agree in number and gender, typically with the subject (e.g.: Elles sont parties and il s'est tenu debout).

This is where things get weird and tought to remember. Even natives can screw these up. Direct objects change agreement. Pronominal verbs where the direct object isn't the subject, they agree with the direct object if it precedes the verb. If it follows the verb, there's no agreement. Otherwise, agree with the subject

Examples:
Elle s'est brossé les cheveux
Elle se les est brossés
Elle s'est brossées

This finally brings us to the case where avoir verbs agree; if the direct object preceeds the verb. In that case, the past participle agrees with the direct object.

Les pommes que j'ai mangées
Je les ai mangées

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Also, it's unclear if you're asking about futur proche or futur simple, Ducky. The answer for futur proche was 100% correct, conjugate aller for the subject + infinitive of the other verb.

The future simple is much more... simple cursedtrons In most cases, you just tack the following endings onto the infinitive (most cases, it's French, the one rule is that there are exceptions)

Je -ai
Tu -as
Il -a
Nous -ons
Vous -ez
Ils -ont

You'll notice these are the same endings used for l'imparfait, and are basically just the conjugations of avoir (except nous and vous)

barren goblet
storm stone
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It's legitimately one of the harder rules

barren goblet
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nonono istg it's the first thing you learn for passe compose idk what i was on 😭

storm stone
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that + correct usage of le subjonctif passé

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Anyways, @hot pike, that's a huge wall of text and outlines some challenging things (there are also verbs that can be conjugated with avoir or être depending on usage), so if it's too much or you need clarification, don't hesitate to ping with what you need, and I can focus more on that. You're definitely not expected to understand all these concepts at once

hot pike
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Why is French so confusing 😭

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I guess at least it doesn’t have tones but still 😦

storm stone
# hot pike Why is French so confusing 😭

Languages are ultimately a huge experiment in design by committee, so they tend to do silly things. Thankfully, they also tend to simplify, but that process takes thousands of years

dark violet
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The rules look intimidating but aren't all that hard once you get used to them (most of them at least)

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Conjugation is muuuuch more regular than english

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Also, present tense is the hardest tense to conjugate :p the rest just build off of the present or each other

hot pike
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Would you understand me if I said j’ai before the verb? Like would it sound past tense

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And could you say je vais before most verbs for future tense?

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I know it isn’t that simple irl but would people understand

storm stone
storm stone
hot pike
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Okay that makes past and future tense seem way less confusing

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I get that there are exceptions but at least I have the basics for past and future

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Are there times you shouldnt use le futur simple?

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Is it like less formal

storm stone
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If anything le futur simple is more formal. Orally you'll hear le futur proche more frequently in my experience

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but like, it's not really more formal

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the difference is roughly "I'm going to" vs "I will" in English