Conditional Flashcards

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When do you use the conditional tense in French?

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  • Equivalent to ‘would’
  • To express future-in-the-past as in ‘would leave’ etc…
  • to express a potential or hypothetical event
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How do you form the conditional tense in French?

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By adding the imperfect tense ending to the future stem of the verb

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What are the endings?

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Je -ais 
Tu -ais 
Il -ait 
Nous -ions 
Vous -iez 
Ils -aient
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