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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 ...
Simple future (futur simple) Future perfect (futur antérieur): formed with an auxiliary verb in the simple future; Subjunctive Present, simple; Past (passé): formed with an auxiliary verb in the subjunctive present; Imperfect, simple. Somewhat rare. Pluperfect: formed with an auxiliary verb in the subjunctive imperfect. Somewhat rare. Imperative
Similarly to English, the verb aller (to go) can be used as an auxiliary verb to create a near-future tense (le futur proche). Whereas English uses the continuous aspect (to be going), French uses the simple present tense; for example, the English sentence "I am going to do it tomorrow" would in French be « Je vais le faire demain ».
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lançai, mangerai (future and simple past verb forms ending in -ai or -rai) /ə/ faisan, faisons, [7] (and all other conjugated forms of faire which are spelt fais-and followed by a pronounced vowel) aî (in new orthography ai ) /ɛː/ maître, chaîne (in new orthography, maitre, chaine) aï before a consonant / a. i / naïf, haïr: before a ...
An example of a future tense form is the French achètera, meaning "will buy", derived from the verb acheter ("to buy"). The "future" expressed by the future tense usually means the future relative to the moment of speaking, although in contexts where relative tense is used it may mean the future relative to some other point in time under ...
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Similarly to English, the French verb aller (to go) can be used as an auxiliary verb to create a near-future tense (le futur proche). Whereas English uses the continuous aspect (to be going), French uses the simple present tense; for example, the English sentence "I am going to do it tomorrow" would in French be « Je vais le faire demain