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[potent canyon]

@livid abyss

[livid abyss]

Okay so for futur proche

The futur proche consists of two elements, the verb « aller » and the infinitive

Say we have a verb like « parler (to talk) », if you say « je parle » that's 'I talk', right?

If we add in « aller » like « je vais parler », that becomes 'I am going to talk'

That original verb, « parler », is no longer conjugated because you already have « aller ». In principle, you only conjugate once per subject.

For example, say I have « tu parles ». What would be the futur proche?

[livid abyss]

@potent canyon
Step (1): Take a look at the subject
Step (2): Find the present conjugation of « aller » for that subject
Step (3): Put that verb in
Step (4): Change the original verb into the infinitive/unconjugated form

If we use those same steps for the earlier example, they'd be this:
(1) Subject is « je »
(2) Present conjugation of « aller » for the subject « je » is « vais »
(3) Je vais parle
(4) Je vais parler (parle, the conjugated form –> parler, the infinitive)

Answer (Don't open unless you've already answered it; don't cheat): ||Tu vas parler||

For training purposes, you can complete these:
(1) Nous parlons: …
Hint: ||Infinitive is « parler »||
(2) Tu finis: …
Hint: ||Infinitive is « finir »||
(3) Vous prenez: …
Hint: ||Infinitive is « prendre »||
(4) Elles rendent: …
Hint: ||Infinitive is « rendre »||
(5) Il reçoit: …
Hint: ||Infinitive is « recevoir »||

Tag me once you're done

[potent canyon]

Nous allons Parlons

Is this how it comes for 1st one ?

[livid abyss]

Remember, we have to change the main verb to the infinitive

You only conjugate once

Like in the example above, « je parle » becomes « je vais parler » because the presence of « aller » shifts the conjugation from « parler » to « aller »

When you have multiple verbs, you only conjugate the first one.

Try again.

[potent canyon]

I know how to conjugate some verbs like aller avoir etre we studied these

Parler is something new

[livid abyss]

As long as you understand that you only conjugate the first verb, it'll always work

[potent canyon]

Nous allons parler ?

[livid abyss]

Correct!

Continue!

The hints inside the spoiler marks are the infinitives so if you're stuck you can open that

[potent canyon]

Tu vas finir

[livid abyss]

Good good

[potent canyon]

Vous allez prendre

Elles allent rendre

II va recevoir

[livid abyss]

Oops, two errors:
(1) That's not how « aller » is conjugated for the third person plural « ils/elles »
(2) « rendent » is still conjugated

Here's a big hint for you: Infinitives end in either one of these four forms: -er, -ir, -re, -oir

[potent canyon]

Oh yeah sorry for the rendre

[livid abyss]

Okay, but what about your « aller » ?

That's not conjugated correctly

[potent canyon]

Allont ?

[livid abyss]

vont

[potent canyon]

Aah yeah

[livid abyss]

je vais, tu vas, il va, nous allons, vous allez, ils vont

No worries, you seem to have got the idea of it

I'm going to give you three more:
(6) Thomas va au marché. (infinitive = ||aller||)
(7) Jean-Luc et Marie se marient. (infinitive = ||se marier||)
(8) Les femmes veulent partir (infinitive = ||vouloir||)

For number (7), object pronouns are always before the verbs they belong to, so adding another verb won't change the order.

Ex: Je la vois => Je veux la voir
The object pronoun « la (her) » belongs to the verb « voir » so it's still before « voir » even when there's another verb inserted.

[potent canyon]

Thomas va aller au marche

Is this how ?

[livid abyss]

Yup yup

keep going, you're doing great

[potent canyon]

Jean luc et marie va se marier

[livid abyss]

Close, « Jean-Luc et Marie » would mean two people so plural

[potent canyon]

Oh I don’t understand the entire sentence so I thought marie was

[livid abyss]

Just take it slow

Jean-Luc et Marie se marient = Jean-Luc and Marie are getting married

se marier = to get married

[potent canyon]

Les femmes allvont veulent partir

[livid abyss]

Two errors:
(1) allvont is wrong
(2) veulent is still conjugated

[potent canyon]

Femme means women ?

[livid abyss]

les femmes = the women

yup, plural

[potent canyon]

Femmes means women’s ?

[livid abyss]

la femme = the woman (singular, one)
les femmes = the women (plural, more than one)

look at the article

le/la/l' = one
les = many

[potent canyon]

Femmes vont vouloir

[livid abyss]

I'm going to give you two more to hone it:
(9) Les chiens aboient (infinitive: ||aboyer||)
[The dogs bark]
(10) Les chefs prennent la décision (infinitive: ||prendre||)
[The leaders take the decision]

[potent canyon]

Les chiens vont aboyer

Les chefs vont prendre

[livid abyss]

Great work!

Okay, so you’ve got the hang of it

That’s futur proche

[potent canyon]

That was not as hard I thought

[livid abyss]

For passé récent, the idea is exactly the same. All you have to do is switch the verb: Instead of conjugating « aller », you conjugate « venir ». You have the preposition « de » but you don’t have to worry about that; just add it in between the two verbs.

Je parle => Je viens de parler

add in the verb (venir)
change the original into the infinitive (parle to parler)

Now do that for the ten questions I laid out earlier

For training purposes, you can complete these:
(1) Nous parlons: …
Hint: ||Infinitive is « parler »||
(2) Tu finis: …
Hint: ||Infinitive is « finir »||
(3) Vous prenez: …
Hint: ||Infinitive is « prendre »||
(4) Elles rendent: …
Hint: ||Infinitive is « rendre »||
(5) Il reçoit: …
Hint: ||Infinitive is « recevoir »||

I'm going to give you three more:
(6) Thomas va au marché. (infinitive = ||aller||)
(7) Jean-Luc et Marie se marient. (infinitive = ||se marier||)
(8) Les femmes veulent partir (infinitive = ||vouloir||)

I'm going to give you two more to hone it:
(9) Les chiens aboient (infinitive: ||aboyer||)
[The dogs bark]
(10) Les chefs prennent la décision (infinitive: ||prendre||)
[The leaders take the decision]

[potent canyon]

Je venis , tu venis , Elle venit ,Nous venos , vous Venez and elles venent

Are these the conjugation for venir ?

[livid abyss]

The only difference here is that some verbs start with a vowel, and they have to contract with « de ». Example:
J’ai une clé => Je viens d’avoir une clé
de + avoir = d’avoir

[livid abyss]

Je viens
Tu viens
Il vient
Nous venons
Vous venez
Ils viennent

Good luck!

[potent canyon]

Nous venons parler

[livid abyss]

Don’t forget the preposition!

Je parle => Je viens de parler

[potent canyon]

I don’t know what are prepositions in French

[livid abyss]

It’s complicated but what matters now is that you DO NOT FORGET THE « DE »

[potent canyon]

Nous venons de parler

[livid abyss]

Good!

Keep going

[potent canyon]

So for every passed recent I have to use de and venir conjunction

[livid abyss]

yup

[potent canyon]

Conjugation

[livid abyss]

Don’t just think « venir », think « venir de »

Very important

[potent canyon]

Tu viens de finir

Vous venez de prendre

I have to study the conjugation for venir before attempting these

Elles viennent de rendre

II vient de recevoir

[livid abyss]

Good!!!

You’re doing SO WELL

[potent canyon]

Leurs parents vont participer

Elle va prendre

Ils vont partir

Tu vas visiter

Grishma va regarder

Are these correct answer for passe futur questions?

[livid abyss]

All correct!

[potent canyon]

Leurs enfants viennent de finir

Je viens de finir

Son frere vient de obtenir

Nous venons de participer

Tu viens de boire

How about these

[livid abyss]

Wrong verb

Look at the question again

Otherwise, you did awesome!

[potent canyon]

Oh yea faire

[livid abyss]

For the passé composé bit, will you be online in like two or three hours because I’m currently going home from work

Might not be able to explain it all

[potent canyon]

Yea sure

Just ping me when ur free

And thanks for the help

[livid abyss]

Alright

I'm going to try my best to explain « passé composé ». It's very important that you understand the passé composé's structure and logic because if you do understand it, you will understand HALF of all French tenses. I'm serious. It's that important.

Before I go into that, let me explain a bit on conjugation. When we conjugate a verb, we are providing it with two types of meaning: personal information and semantic information. What does that mean?

Well, when I say « nous parlons », that word « parlons » contains two bits of information: First is personal and that means that « parlons » is in the present tense, the second person (listener), and plural. There's a bit more but essentially that's what it means. The second information is semantic and that's what the verb itself means: « parler » means 'to talk', 'to speak'. When we combine the two, we get « nous parlons (we are speaking) ».

If I switch the subject to, say, « ils », the personal information changes and thus the conjugation also changes in accordance to the subject. In this case, it's « parlent »: present tense, third person plural. The semantic meaning stays the same: the act of speaking.

Now, that one word, « (nous) parlons/(ils) parlent » contain both the personal and semantic information. When we have both in one word, we call that a simple tense. Hold that thought.

In « passé composé », the personal and semantic information is no longer united, they are now separate. We see this in the conjugation: « j'ai parlé, tu as parlé, il a parlé, etc ». Here, we have two words instead of one: we have an auxiliary verb – here it's « avoir » – and we have the original verb in past participle form. Because we now have two elements, we call it a compound tense.

Here's the key bit: When we conjugate a compound tense, what we are conjugating is the AUXILIARY VERB. The auxiliary verb contains just the personal information, and it's what changes as we change subjects. The past participle, on the other hand, contains just the semantic information, and so it's just there tagging along for the ride. That's why, when we conjugate this to all six persons, only the auxiliary verb changes; the past participle stays put.
« J'ai parlé, tu as parlé, il a parlé, nous avons parlé, vous avez parlé, ils ont parlé ».

You need both. Without one or the other, there's no sense to the word because it lacks the full meaning. I am stressing this out because it's fairly common for learners to omit one of the two elements. Let me stress again: You need both.

In French, we have two auxiliary verbs, « avoir » and « être ». To know which verb takes which, read this article on être.

How do we conjugate a compound tense? You see, in French, we have five simple tenses: the present, imperfect, simple future, present conditional, and present subjunctive. Compound tenses form the past version of these five tenses and are derived from them. The structure is this: auxiliary conjugated in the simple tense + the past participle.

Now, the passé composé is the compound past version of the present, so how do we conjugate? Well, we conjugate the auxiliary in the past AND THEN we add the past participle.

I'll give you an example. Say I have « je finis » and I want to turn that into the past. Well, I know « finir » is not in the list of verbs that take « être » mentionned two messages above, so it takes « avoir ». I take the present conjugations of « avoir »: J'ai, tu as, il a, nous avons, vous avez, ils ont. Then, I simply add the past participle « fini » to complete it:  J'ai fini, tu as fini, il a fini, nous avons fini, vous avez fini, ils ont fini.
If I want to switch out the verb, say « rendre » instead of « finir », all I have to do is change the past participle: J'ai rendu, tu as rendu, il a rendu, nous avons rendu, vous avez rendu, ils ont rendu.

That's avoir so I'll give you some questions with « avoir ».

Turn these into the passé composé. All are using « avoir ».
(1) Je termine
Verb hint: ||terminer||
Past participle hint (massive hint): ||terminé||
(2) Il reçoit
Verb hint: ||recevoir||
Past participle hint (massive hint): ||reçu||
(3) Vous grandissez
Verb hint: ||grandir||
Past participle hint (massive hint): ||grandi||
(4) Nous mangeons
Verb hint: ||manger||
Past participle hint (massive hint): ||mangé||
(5) Tu prends
Verb hint: ||prendre||
Past participle hint (massive hint): ||pris||
(6) Elles contrôlent
Verb hint: ||contrôler||
Past participle hint (massive hint): ||contrôlé||

Once you're done with that, we can move to the verbs with « être ». They function just like the « avoir » verbs with one big exceptions: past participle agreement. You see, past participles are adjectives and adjectives agree when you have être, right? Think « le garçon est beau » and « la fille est belle »? Same idea here but extended; past participles must agree in gender and number.

Let's take one verb from that list, « entrer ». We conjugate the present forms of « être »: « Je suis, tu es, il est, nous sommes, vous êtes, ils sont ». Then, we put in the past participle « entré » : « Je suis entré, tu es entré, il est entré, nous sommes entré, vous êtes entré, ils sont entré ». Here, we add one step: Make the participles agree. The best examples are with the third person pronouns because they make their number and gender clear.

Il est entr__é__ = é because « il » is masculine and singular.
Ils sont entr__é__s = és because « ils » is masculine and plural.
Elle est entr__ée__ = ée because « elle » is feminine and singular.
Elles sont entr__ée__s = ées because « elles » is feminine and plural.

For the other pronouns, you have to know their number and gender from context. For example, if you are a girl or if you're hearing a girl say « Je suis entrée dans la chambre », you know it's entrée and not entrés because it's just one girl.

The pronoun is understood like this. I'll put all possible past participle agreements.
(1) je = singular, either feminine or masculine [je suis entré/entrée]
(2) tu = singular, either feminine or masculine [tu es entré/entrée]
(3) il = singular, masculine [il est entré]
(4) elle = singular, feminine [elle est entrée]
(5) nous = plural, either feminine or masculine [nous sommes entrés/entrées]
(6) vous = either singular or plural, either feminine or masculine [vous êtes entré/entrés/entrée/entrées]
(7) ils = plural, masculine [ils sont entrés]
(8) elles = plural, feminine [elles sont entrées]

Another exercise. Turn these into the passé composé. All are using « être ».
(1) Je pars [one woman]
Verb hint: ||partir||
Past participle hint (massive hint): ||partie||
(2) Il rentre
Verb hint: ||rentrer||
Past participle hint (massive hint): ||rentré||
(3) Vous sortez [multiple men]
Verb hint: ||sortir||
Past participle hint (massive hint): ||sortis||
(4) Nous tombons [multiple women]
Verb hint: ||tomber||
Past participle hint (massive hint): ||tombées||
(5) Tu montes [one man]
Verb hint: ||monter||
Past participle hint (massive hint): ||monté||
(6) Elles retournent
Verb hint: ||retourner||
Past participle hint (massive hint): ||retournées||

For completing the circuit, here's five questions with a mix. Determine the correct auxiliary and the correct participle ending before answering. Turn these into passé composé.
(1) Je cours
Verb hint: ||courir||
Auxiliary hint (massive hint): ||avoir||
Past participle hint (massive hint): ||couru||
(2) Il meurt
Verb hint: ||mourir||
Auxiliary hint (massive hint): ||être||
Past participle hint (massive hint): ||mort||
(3) Elle dort
Verb hint: ||dormir||
Auxiliary hint (massive hint): ||avoir||
Past participle hint (massive hint): ||dormi||
(4) Vous tenez
Verb hint: ||tenir||
Auxiliary hint (massive hint): ||avoir||
Past participle hint (massive hint): ||tenu||
(5) Elles arrivent
Verb hint: ||arriver||
Auxiliary hint (massive hint): ||être||
Past participle hint (massive hint): ||arrivées||

[livid abyss]

@potent canyon Start here. Good luck!

[potent canyon]

Je ai termine
ll a recu
Vous avez grandi
Nous avons mange
Tu as pris
Elles ont controle

Understood how to do it

[livid abyss]

J’ai*

otherwise, great work

[potent canyon]

But how can we make past participle

[livid abyss]

Remember that contractions are mandatory

[potent canyon]

Is there any way of learning it ?

[livid abyss]

Press the blue text on this first paragraph

Blue text means a link

It’ll lead you to pp formation

[livid abyss]

Here
https://www.lawlessfrench.com/grammar/past-participle-conjugations/

[potent canyon]

Oh got it thanks

[potent canyon]

Je suis partie
ll est rentre
Vous etes sortis
Nous Somme tombees
Tu es monte
Elles sont retourness

[livid abyss]

check again on that last one

[potent canyon]

Elles sont retournèes

[livid abyss]

Wrong accent but great nonetheless

[potent canyon]

Without the hint can we classify which one is etre and avoir?

[livid abyss]

No, it’s a memorisation game

[potent canyon]

How can we know which is etre and avoir ?

[livid abyss]

You memorise

Read the link

https://www.lawlessfrench.com/grammar/auxiliary-verbs/

[potent canyon]

I got a question in quelle quel

Do we use that before the sentence or after ?

[livid abyss]

Quel?

Quel is a demonstrative adjective like ce/cette

Quel ami
Quelle copine
Quels exemples
Quelles tables

[potent canyon]

Sont fini
J ai faiu
Son frere a obteni
Nous avez participe
Tu as boiu

Is this correct @livid abyss

[gloomy shell]

no

[potent canyon]

Oh

Which one is wrong

[gloomy shell]

well those conjugations are wrong

but also the passé récent is with venir isn't it?

[potent canyon]

Oh.. I did the wrong question

Thought it was passe compas

[gloomy shell]

either way, those passé composé conjugations are wrong

[potent canyon]

Je suis marche’

Is this correct?

[gloomy shell]

no

marcher uses avoir not être

[potent canyon]

Oh so j’ai marche ?

[gloomy shell]

marché

yes

[potent canyon]

II a voi
Elle est arrive’
Jinu prepare’
IIs sont parti

@gloomy shell is this correct

[gloomy shell]

a voi is wrong

do you know how to look up the conjugation of a verb?

a preparé

otherwise looks good

[potent canyon]

What’s the answer?

[gloomy shell]

a vu

look up french verb conjugation

reverso

but most dictionaries

it will just tell you how to conjugate the verbs

stop guessing and just memorize the answers

[potent canyon]

Voir is ending with ir so won’t it change to voi?

[gloomy shell]

¯_(ツ)_/¯

lots of ir verbs conjugate with -u

but it may be irregular