French Verb Timeline
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This timeline will help you understand French verb tenses and moods.
| M O O D | |||||||
| PERSONAL* | IMPERSONAL* | ||||||
| Indicative | Subjunctive | Imperative | Conditional | Infinitive | Participle | ||
| F U T U R E |
future | (subjunctive) | (imperative) | (conditional) | future inf. | future participle |
F U T U R E |
| future perfect | |||||||
| PRESENT | subjunctive | imperative | conditional | infinitive | present part. | ||
| P A S T |
imperfect | [imperfect subj] | past imp. | past cond. | past inf. | past participle |
P A S T |
| compound past | past subjunctive | ||||||
| [simple past] | |||||||
| [past cond. 2] | |||||||
| pluperfect | [pluperfect subj] | ||||||
| [past anterior] | |||||||
*Personal moods have different conjugations for different subjects, whereas impersonal moods have only one form.
The (parentheses) indicate present tense verb forms which are also used as future forms.
Verb forms in [brackets] are the literary equivalent of the verb form in the box directly above (e.g., the simple past is the literary equivalent of the compound past).
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