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The perfect tense (eg. j'ai fait, j'ai joué), formed through combination of a past participle and a conjugated form of avoir or être, is used for completed decisive actions.

Meanwhile, the imperfec...

The subjunctive is used as a way to express doubt, possibility, or necessity of an action or situation happening. In a more broad sense it is used in sentences that are not assertions but rather express a...

Usually, if a noun ends in an E, it will be feminine, and if it ends in a consonant it is masculine. Of course, there are some exceptions to this rule but 9/10 times this will be the case.

First of all, you need to ask yourself the question: am I addressing one person, or more than one? If the answer is more then one, simple! You ALWAYS use vous because this is the plural form.

If th...

The key difference between the imperfect and the passé composé is that the imperfect is used to describe incomplete actions and the passé composé is used to decscribe complete actions. B...