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For example: peler (to peel) -> je p-èle (present) / je p-èlerai (futur) / je p-èlerais (conditional). In most -eler and -eter verbs, the writer must either change the e to an è before endings that start with a silent e , or change the l or t to ll or tt .
French verbs have a large number of simple (one-word) forms. These are composed of two distinct parts: the stem (or root, or radix), which indicates which verb it is, and the ending (inflection), which indicates the verb's tense (imperfect, present, future etc.) and mood and its subject's person (I, you, he/she etc.) and number, though many endings can correspond to multiple tense-mood-subject ...
Aside from être and avoir (considered categories unto themselves), French verbs are traditionally [1] grouped into three conjugation classes (groupes): . The first conjugation class consists of all verbs with infinitives ending in -er, except for the irregular verb aller and (by some accounts) the irregular verbs envoyer and renvoyer; [2] the verbs in this conjugation, which together ...
Prototypical conditional sentences in English are those of the form "If X, then Y". The clause X is referred to as the antecedent (or protasis), while the clause Y is called the consequent (or apodosis). A conditional is understood as expressing its consequent under the temporary hypothetical assumption of its antecedent.
Conditional sentences in Latin are traditionally classified into three categories, based on grammatical structure. simple conditions (factual or logical implications) present tense [if present indicative then indicative] sī valēs, gaudeo "if you are well, I am glad" past tense [if perfect indicative then indicative]
Examples are the English and French conditionals (an analytic construction in English, [c] but inflected verb forms in French), which are morphologically futures-in-the-past, [1] and of which each has thus been referred to as a "so-called conditional" [1] [2] (French: soi-disant conditionnel [3] [4] [5]) in modern and contemporary linguistics ...
In general (if we join their cases A and B — I do not see why are the present and future cases different), there are, on one axis, General conditions, occuring customarily at indefinite time (our “0-conditional”), Simple conditions, not-yet-fulfilled, uncertan at a time when they are set, and Contrary-to-fact conditions, that were already ...
The conditional perfect progressive or conditional perfect continuous construction combines conditional mood with perfect progressive aspect. It consists of would (or sometimes should in the first person, as above) with the bare infinitive have, the past participle been and the present participle of the main verb. It generally refers to a ...