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  2. Passé composé - Wikipedia

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    The passé composé is formed by the auxiliary verb, usually the avoir auxiliary, followed by the past participle.The construction is parallel to that of the present perfect (there is no difference in French between perfect and non-perfect forms - although there is an important difference in usage between the perfect tense and the imperfect tense).

  3. French verbs - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  4. French conjugation - Wikipedia

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    Auxiliary verb: avoir (arriver, entrer, monter, passer, rester, rentrer, retourner, and tomber use être) Spelling rules: In -cer verbs, the c becomes a ç before endings that start with a or o, to indicate that it is still pronounced /s/ (je déplac-e - nous déplaç-ons); similarly, in -ger verbs, the g becomes ge before such endings, to ...

  5. French verb morphology - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  6. French grammar - Wikipedia

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    Verbs in French are conjugated to reflect the following information: a mood (indicative, imperative, subjunctive, or conditional) a tense (past, present, or future, though not all tenses can be combined with all moods) an aspect (perfective or imperfective) a voice (active, passive, [a] or reflexive [a]) Nonfinite forms (e.g., participles ...

  7. Romance copula - Wikipedia

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    The Spanish copulas are ser and estar.The latter developed as follows: stare → *estare → estar. The copula ser developed from two Latin verbs. Thus its inflectional paradigm is a combination: most of it derives from svm (to be) but the present subjunctive appears to come from sedeo (to sit) via the Old Spanish verb seer.

  8. Glossary of French words and expressions in English

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    a form of competitive horse training, in French has the broader meaning of taming any kind of animal. droit du seigneur lit. "right of the lord": the purported right of a lord in feudal times to take the virginity of one of his vassals ' brides on her wedding night (in precedence to her new husband).

  9. Future perfect - Wikipedia

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    subject I + habré future of haber will have + hablado past participle spoken yo {} habré {} hablado subject + { future of haber } + {past participle} I {} {will have} {} spoken The future of haber is formed by the future stem habr + the endings -é, -ás, -á, -emos, -éis, -án. The past participle of a verb is formed by adding the endings -ado and -ido to ar and er / ir verbs, respectively ...