French GCSE tenses guide: A comprehensive overview of key tenses for GCSE French students. This guide covers infinitives, present tense, past tense with avoir and être, imperfect tense, future tense, simple future, and conditional tense. It provides clear explanations, conjugation patterns, and examples for each tense.
Key points:
- Infinitives end in -er, -ir, or -re
- Present tense formation involves removing infinitive endings and adding specific endings
- Past tense uses avoir or être auxiliary verbs with past participles
- Imperfect tense describes ongoing or habitual past actions
- Future tense can be formed with aller + infinitive or by adding specific endings to infinitives
- Conditional tense expresses hypothetical situations
