Present and future
Possibility, and polite requests: it could rain; could you help me?
- I / you / he / she / it / we / they could
Could
pourrait, pouvait
Modal verb.
Modal verb
Could is also the past of can: I could swim at five. Could have and a participle: what was possible but did not happen: we could have won.
Newbie
Enough to talk about now, the past, and your plans, and to give instructions.