#conjugaison

Dans la construction c’est moi qui (c’est toi qui, c’est lui qui, etc.), le verbe s’accorde avec l’antécédent du pronom qui, c’est-à-dire le pronom personnel moi (toi, lui, etc.). Le verbe est ici au passé composé de l’indicatif*:

C’est moi qui ai décidé…

J'ai noté : "le déjeûner" et pas "le déjeuner" et je me suis questionnée sur

👋 La conjugaison est la base de la langue française.

Cette vidéo vous propose la conjugaison du verbe FAIRE aux différents temps de l'indicatif : le présent, le passé composé, le futur simple, le passé simple, l'imparfait, le plus-que-parfait, le futur antérieur, le passé antérieur.

Okay, so I found two GIFs for this post and can’t choose between them... so I’m posting both!  GIF #1:

I almost passed this one up until I saw Levi’s clean-freak behind 😂

And now, onto GIF #2:

This is me trying to learn this damn 🙃 lovely language, heh heh

So as you can see, this is gonna be a French-themed post.  Now, based on the title (esp. the “nemesis” part), take a wiiiiild guess as to what this French post will be about... YEP, YOU GUESSED IT:

~CONJUGATION~

As much as I’m not caring for reviewing it at the moment, I know that it needs to be done, especially them annoying subjunctive conjugations, SHEESH!  And so, Adelante... lol wrong language allons-y!! 😂

I’ll separate the conjugations into 3 main categories: Indicative (Indicatif), Subjunctive (Subjonctif) and Conditional (Conditionnel).  Under those 3 categories there will be the subcategories of Présent, Passé Composé, Imparfait, Futur, etc. DISCLAIMER: THE AMOUNT OF SUBGROUPS DIFFER BETWEEN THE 3 MAJOR CATEGORIES.  Just because that’s how French is, hon hon hon! 😂  DISCLAIMER #2: THIS POST IS SOLELY DEDICATED TO REGULAR VERBS.  I’ll make another post for the irregular verbs, because that’s a whole other monster that’d make this post TOO LONG if I included it in here.

So, without further ado:

INDICATIF

~ Présent ~

~ Imparfait ~

*Perhaps as you can see, the imparfait conjugation of “-Re” verbs is done exactly as that of the “-Er” verbs.  We’ll see more of this happening, but between the “-Er” and “-Ir” verbs, whose charts you’ll later see combined because of this... like in the futur simple chart directly below!

~ Futur Simple ~

And now we move onto the complex tenses for the indicatif portion of this verb conjugation post!  But first, a quick note:

For all of the complex REGULAR verb conjugations we use [Avoir + participle]. To conjugate, we have to know how to only conjugate "avoir" and know what the participle forms of the main verbs are. For passé composé specifically, which is what we start with below, we have to learn how to conjugate "avoir" in the present indicative tense.

~ Passé Composé ~

Now for this next complex tense, plus-que parfait, we do the same: conjugate “avoir” and pair it with the participle form of the main verb.  However, for this tense we conjugate “avoir” into the imparfait tense.

~ Plus-que Parfait ~

And of course for this next one, the futur antérieur, we have to conjugate “avoir” into the futur tense!

Alright, that wraps it up for the indicatif category, now onto the category I personally hate the most... SUBJONCTIF 🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃

SUBJONCTIF

~ Présent ~

And here is where you find out why I hate this mode in French (not so much in Spanish anymore, thank God):

For "-er" ending verbs, you may have noticed that everything is conjugated as if conjugating the present indicative... BUT DON'T THINK OF THESE ENDINGS LIKE THIS!!! This will only confuse you if you do. Instead, think of this set of endings as something completely separate, specifically for the present subjunctive. Another thing you may have noticed is that for "nous" and "vous" the verbs are conjugated as if conjugating the imparfait. Again, DON'T THINK OF THEM LIKE THIS. I mean, if you find that relating these conjugations back to previous tenses covered above helps you, then by all means. But if you find yourself getting confused (like yours truly), it’s better to not relate them so much to what’s been previously touched on.

Going further with what I said, here's another reason as to why you maybe shouldn't do this: the "-ir" subjunctive endings you see below are different from "-ir" endings of any other aforementioned tense. If you do what I recommend NOT doing for the "-er" verbs, chances are you'll get yourself confused on how to form the subjunctive with the "-ir" verbs, and in turn with the "-re" verbs as well.

Next, we have the passé de subjonctif, which is the complex form for this subjonctif section of the post.  Take a wiiiiiiild guess as to which tense we have to conjugate “avoir” into?

~ Passé de Subjonctif ~

And lastly, we have the conditionnel portion of this post, which like the subjonctif part contains both a simple and complex form.  Again, before on, quick note: In Spanish we use both subjunctive forms and conditional forms together to create the conditional sentences, sentences I tried to utilize as example sentences for both the subjonctif and conditionnel sections of this post.  However, I have a strong feeling that what I tried to do here (using the subjonctif and conditionnel together as opposed to the conditionnel and she other tense) is completely wrong, LOL 😂😂😂 BUT it’s given me inspiration to make another post (probs in the faaaar future... sorry in advance) comparing the use of subjective between Spanish and French... maaaaainly to get it straight in my own head, but also to hopefully help someone else out with the same problem!  ANYWAY, onto conditionnel!

CONDITIONNEL

~ Présent ~

Apologies for the last example sentence for conditionnel simple; I couldn’t come up with anything better at 2am when I made it up. 

~ Passé de Conditionnel ~

Eeeeet je pense que c’est fini!  Sorry for the text-heavy post, but thanks for sticking through to the end of this one guys!!  As always, if you have any questions, see any mistakes or just want to chat it up with me, feel free to send me an ask.  All of these charts and example sentences were made by me in a Google doc that you can find here if you wanna skip all of the text in this post.  And here’s to the next post that will NOT be about French verbs, because I need a break from that before trying to tackle the irregular verbs. 😭  Until next time!