French IGCSE Tenses

Take nous form of Present Tense 

~ nous avons 

Get rid of nous and ~ons

Add imperfect endings:

ais 

ais 

ait

ions 

iez 

aient 

Take Present Tense of Avoir

~er é

~ir i

~re u

Add on to past participles of Verb eg:

parl...

chois...

vend...

• #  simple future 
• je regarderai (I will watch)
• tu regarderas (you will watch)
• il/elle/on regardera (he/she/it will watch)
• nous regarderons (we will watch)
• vous regarderez (you will watch)
• ils/elles regarderont (they will watch)

The conditional tense is used to talk about what would happen in the future:

• Je regarderais la télé (I would watch TV)

To form the conditional tense, add the imperfect endings to the future stem:

• Regarder --> je regarderais (I would watch)
• Finir --> tu finirais (you would finish)
• Prendre --> il/elle/on prendrait (he/she/it would take)
• Manger --> nous mangerions (we would eat)
• Partir --> vous partiriez (you would leave)
• Vendre --> ils/elles vendraient (they would sell)

To form the pluperfect, use the imperfect tense of avoir and être and add the past participle. The agreements of the perfect tense apply here too:

• tu étais partie quand je suis arrivé (You had left when I arrived)
• j'avais mangé avant de partir (I had eaten before leaving)