VERB TENSES
a tense expressing an action that is currently going on or habitually performed, or a state that currently or generally exists
What is the present tense?
Identify the mood or tense.
"Il va arriver."
What is the near future?
"He is going to arrive."
grammatical mood that expresses the will to influence the behavior of another
What is the imperative?
Identify the capitalized word in italics.
"J'Y suis allée deux fois."
What is a(n) (adverbial) pronoun?
a verb form that makes a statement or asks a question (the vast majority of verbs)
What is the indicative mood?
a tense used to talk about completed actions that happened shortly before the moment of speaking
What is the recent past tense?
Identify the tense or mood.
"Il est arrivé."
What is the passé composé?
"He arrived."
a transitive verb whose subject and object always refer to the same person or thing
What is a reflexive verb?
Identify the capitalized word in italics.
"Ses parents LUI ont dit la nouvelle."
What is an indirect object pronoun?
Identify the tense or mood.
"Arrive à l'heure !"
What is the imperative mood?
a grammatical construction of French consisting of the present tense of an auxiliary, either avoir or être, followed by a past participle and corresponding in function to both the English present perfect and the English simple past tenses
What is the passé composé?
Identify the tense or mood.
"Il arrivait."
What is the imperfect?
"He was arriving..."
a verb that does not take a direct object
What is an intransitive verb?
Identify the capitalized word in italics.
"J'y suis ALLÉE deux fois."
Identify the capitalized word in italics.
"Ses parents L'ont dite à lui."
What is a direct object pronoun?
a verb tense that's used to talk about things that haven't happened yet
What is the (simple) future tense?
Identify the tense or mood.
"Il arriverait."
What is the conditional mood?
"He would arrive."
the form of a verb which is used to make requests or expression of under what condition something would happen
What is the conditional?
Identify the capitalized word in italics.
"Et VENANT je me dirais à moi-même..."
What is a present participle?
Identify the capitalized word in italics.
"EN voulez-vous?
What is a (partitive) pronoun?
a tense used to describe a past action that is ongoing, incomplete or continuous, or coincident with another action
What is the imperfect tense?
Identify the verb tense or mood.
"Il arrivera..."
What is the future tense?
"He will arrive."
a voice of verbs in which the subject undergoes the action of the verb
What is the passive voice?
"Son frère s'est blessé EN TOMBANT d'un arbre."
What is a gerund (or adverbial participle)?
Identify the tense, mood, and/or voice.
"Il a été dit par ses parents."
What is the passive voice in the passé composé?