tenses french from y9 & y10 + reflexives

present, perfect, imperfect, near future, conditional, simple future

How do you form the present tense?

Remove ending from infinitive and add correct ending for that pronoun

Endings for regular -er verbs

e, es, e, ons, ez, ent

Endings for regular -ir verbs

is, is, it, issons, issez, issent

Endings for regular -re verbs

s, s, nothing, ons, ez, ent

How do you form the near future tense?

Conjugated form of aller + infinitive

How do you form the perfect tense?

Conjugated avoir or être (MRS VANDER TRAMP) + past participle

How do you find the past participle of a verb using avoir?

er = é, re = u, ir = i

Do past participles have to agree with the pronoun?

Avoir no, étre yes

How do you form reflexive verbs in the present tense?

Subject + reflexive pronoun + conjugated verb

What are the reflexive pronouns?

Me, te, se, nous, vous, se

How do you form the imperfect tense?

Use the nous form of the present tense verb, remove the -ons ending, and add the imperfect endings

What are the imperfect endings?

ais, ais, ait, ions, iez, aient

How do you form the simple future tense?

Add the simple future endings to the infinitive verb, for -re verbs remove the final e

What are the simple future endings?

ai, as, a, ons, ez, ont

What are the irregular simple future verbs?

Aller (ir-), avoir (aur-), devoir (devr-), être (ser-), faire (fer-), pouvoir (pouvrr-), revenir (reviendr-), venir (viendr-), voir (verr-), vouloir (voudr-)

How do you form the conditional tense?

Add the conditional endings to the infinitive verb, for -re verbs remove the final e

What are the conditional endings?

ais, ais, ait, ions, iez, aient

How do you form interrogatives (questions)?

You can just add a question mark/inflection, use est-ce-que (only for yes/no questions) or switch the subject and the verb at the beginning of the question, putting a hyphen between them and adding a t inbetween if the subject ends and the verb starts with a vowel

How do you use est-ce-que?

Est-ce-que + subject + verb + ?

How do you form comparatives?

Noun & être conjugation + plus/moins/aussi + adjective (agreeing with first noun) + que + second noun

How do you say ‘better than’?

meilleur/mieux que

How do you say ‘worse than’?

pire que

How do you form superlatives?

definite article (le/la/les) + plus/moins/meilleur(e)(s)/pire(s)

How do you form negatives?

ne + verb + pas (not)/jamais (never)/rien (nothing/not any)/que (only)/ni…ni (neither…nor)

What are direct object pronouns?

Pronouns that replace the noun that is the object of that sentence (thing that the verb is done to)

How do you form direct object pronouns?