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Both tenses refer to actions in the past. With the passé composé, we use this to describe an action which was completed in the past at a specific moment.
For example: Je suis tombé (I fell)....

There are mainly two tenses used in French to discuss what happened in the past, these being: the perfect and imperfect.However, both of these tenses are used in different ways based on what the speaker i...

The subjunctive is a really difficult tense to get to grips with; it is not so much a tense, but a mood. We say that it is most often "triggered" by certain expressions and conjunctions. The mos...

although there are hundreds of verbs in french, knowing when to use avoir or etre is really easy! there are the 13 main verbs that always take etre, and these can be remembered using the acronym MRS VANDE...

Understanding when to use the Imparfait and when to use the Passé Composé can be quite tricky at first. There are however, a couple of guidelines which can help you. Let’s take a look at the Imparfait fir...