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You would use the subjunctive mood when you wish to express a personal opinion or a statement that has an element of doubt. Certain phrases can trigger the subjunctive case and these can simply be learnt ...

In french, three different kinds of verbs can be made: the '1st group' ones finishing by -er, the '2nd group' ones by -ir and the '3rd group' finishing by any other ending (-oir for example). The '1st gro...

The past historic (also called the passé simple) is one of the French past tenses, along with the perfect and imperfect. It replaces the perfect (passé composé) in literary texts and is therefore mainly u...

There is a very simple way of forming the present subjunctive in French; take the 3rd person plural present conjugation of a verb (e.g. prendre -> prennent), then remove the 'ent' ending (so 'prendre' ...

There is in fact an imperfect subjunctive, however it is rarely used and can only normally be found in technical pieces of literature or criticism. As a result, the present subjunctive is what would be ne...