French For Football/Grammar/Tenses
Verb tenses sorted by mood
Non-finite forms
- Le participe présent (The Present Participle)
- Le participe passé (The Past Participle)
- Le Verbe Auxiliaire (The Auxiliary Verb)
- L'infinitif (The Infinitive)
- L'infinitif passé (The Past Infinitive)
L'indicatif (The indicative mood)
Simple tenses
- Le présent de l'indicatif (The present indicative)
- L'imparfait de l'indicatif (The imperfect)
- Le passé simple (The past historic)
- Le futur (The future)
- Le passé composé (The present perfect)
- Le plus-que-parfait de l'indicatif (The pluperfect of the indicative)
- Le passé antérieur (The past anterior)
- Le futur antérieur (The future anterior)
Other tenses
- Le passé récent (The recent past)
- Le futur proche (The near future)
Le subjonctif (The subjunctive mood)
- Le subjonctif (The subjunctive)
- L'imparfait du subjonctif (The imperfect subjunctive)
- Le subjonctif passé (The past subjunctive)
- Le plus-que-parfait du subjonctif (The pluperfect subjunctive)
L'impératif (The imperative mood)
- L'impératif (The imperative)
- L'impératif passé (The past imperative)
Le conditionnel (The conditional mood)
- Le conditionnel (The conditional)
- Le conditionnel passé (The past conditional)
- Le deuxième forme du conditionnel passé (The second form of the past conditional)
Verb tenses sorted by type
Simple tenses
- Le présent de l'indicatif (The present indicative)
- L'imparfait de l'indicatif (The imperfect)
- Le passé simple (The past historic)
- Le futur (The future)
- Le conditionnel (The conditional)
- Le présent du subjonctif (The present subjunctive)
- L'imparfait du subjonctif (The imperfect subjunctive)
Perfect tenses
- Le passé composé (The present perfect)
- Le plus-que-parfait de l'indicatif (The pluperfect of the indicative)
- Le plus-que-parfait du subjonctif (The pluperfect of the subjunctive)
- Le passé antérieur (The past anterior)
- Le futur antérieur (The future anterior)
- Le conditionnel passé (The conditional past)
- Le passé du subjonctif (The subjunctive past)
Perfect tense components
- Le participe présent (The present participle)
- Le participe passé (The past participle)
- Le verbe auxiliaire (The auxiliary verb)
Other tenses
- Le passé récent (The near past)
- Le futur proche (The near future)
- L'Impératif (The imperative)
- L'impératif passé (The past imperative)
Verb tenses sorted by time
Past
- L'imparfait de l'indicatif (The imperfect)
- Le passé simple (The past historic)
- L'imparfait du subjonctif (The imperfect subjunctive)
- Le passé composé (The present perfect)
- Le plus-que-parfait de l'indicatif (The pluperfect of the indicative)
- Le passé antérieur (The past anterior)
- Le passé récent (The near past)
- L'imparfait du subjonctif (The imperfect subjunctive)
- Le subjonctif passé (The past subjunctive)
- Le plus-que-parfait du subjonctif (The pluperfect subjunctive)
- L'impératif passé (The past imperative)
- Le conditionnel passé (The past conditional)
- Le deuxième forme du conditionnel passé (The second form of the past conditional)
Present
Future
Acknowledgements
Based on original text from French/Grammar/Tenses dated 29 October 2009.