Search over 10,000 free study notes

The main thing to remember here is that what's basically one word can be used in different forms - as an adjective, noun or even adverb. The most common ones are adjective and noun, so that's what we'll c...

It can be tricky to tell - and sometimes it's even a matter of choice! However, there are some simple rules that you can remember. The passé composé is used for specific events - things that happened, lik...

In French the imperfect tense is most often used when referring to a habitual action in the past, something that you used to do frequently, and to describe something that happened over an extended period ...

Simply, the imperfect tense is used to convey an action in the past that was taking place over a period of time e.g. 'Je regardais la télé' = 'I was watching TV' - the act of watching TV was not instantan...

Each French noun (an object word such as 'boy', 'table' or 'river') has a gender - they are either masculine or feminine. This may seem strange to a native English speaker as this is not a feature of our ...