French Grammar: The Past Anterior

… Identify: French Grammar: The Past Anterior la grammaire française: le passé antérieur Study: The Past Anterior (le passé antérieur) is a Perfect tense.  Perfect tenses are also known as compound tenses. They use a conjugated auxiliary verb (either AVOIR or ÊTRE) combined with the past participle of the main verb. The Past Anterior is a rather formal tense and is […]

French Grammar: The Future Perfect

… Identify: French Grammar: The Future Perfect la grammaire française: le futur antérieur Study: Perfect tenses are also known as compound tenses. They use a conjugated auxiliary verb (either AVOIR or ÊTRE) combined with the past participle of the main verb. The Future Perfect (le futur antérieur) is f0rmed with the future tense (le futur) form of the auxiliary verb (AVOIR […]