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| subhash123 Newbie India Joined 5233 days ago 4 posts - 4 votes Studies: FrenchA1 | Message 1 of 4 11 August 2010 at 11:54am | IP Logged |
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Hello Dear friends,
I've been learning french but I can not understand unless I clear tenses. it may be my weakness. so I tried to arrange them like this. It'd be appreciated if you guys check this out and correct. Ans please fill some of the columns what are still pending. 
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| michaelmichael Senior Member Canada Joined 5259 days ago 167 posts - 202 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: French | Message 2 of 4 13 August 2010 at 1:26am | IP Logged |
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the past participle of être is été, not étè.
I have eaten is not the present, it is the past. I had eaten would be avais mangé, not étais mangé, and this is actually the plus-que-parfait de l'indicative. as for "I had been eating since", since I am not a native, i can't be 100% sure, but I am 99.99% sure that it should be the imparfait. Je mangeais depuis, not j'étais mangé depuis. étais has an accent. you missed some elisions, je,te, me, se, que, le, la, si should take a ' before a vowel, with few exceptions (si with elle). so je allais = j'allais. Make sure not to confuse which auxiliary verb you are suppose to use in the compound tense. être is only used for reflexive verbs and a handful of verbs used in the intransitive sense, ALL the other verbs use avoir. Barron's 501 french verbs has all the tenses, and all their uses. Edited by michaelmichael on 13 August 2010 at 1:27am 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Spiderkat Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5814 days ago 175 posts - 248 votes Speaks: French*, English Studies: Russian | Message 3 of 4 13 August 2010 at 5:22am | IP Logged |
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Many of them are wrong and some of them I don't even know what they are. English and French tenses don't work the same way because it's a different concept. I think it would be better to create sentences using one or two tenses, or even three, with some context. This way it would easier to understand how they work and how to use them, instead of trying to make each English tense fit a French one, and vice versa.
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| s_allard Triglot Senior Member Canada Joined 5432 days ago 2704 posts - 5425 votes Speaks: French*, English, Spanish Studies: Polish | Message 4 of 4 14 August 2010 at 6:37pm | IP Logged |
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Spiderkat's advice is very correct. There are many mistakes in this table and too many for me to correct here. The basic problem is that you are translating from English to French instead of trying to understand how the French verb tenses work.
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