Présent
What is happening now, habits, and general truths.
- je souris
- tu souris
- il / elle / on sourit
- nous sourions
- vous souriez
- ils / elles sourient
to smile
3rd group, irregular verb, auxiliary avoir, past participle souri.
Conjugated like rire
Enough to talk about the present, the past, and the future.
What is happening now, habits, and general truths.
The everyday past for a finished action.
The spoken future for plans and near events.
Past habits, descriptions, and ongoing background.
Something that has just happened: venir de plus the infinitive.
What will happen later, including promises and predictions.
Polite requests, wishes, and hypotheses: “would …”.
Orders, advice, and instructions. The subject in parentheses is not spoken.
A past action completed before another past action.
An action finished before a future moment: “will have …”.
Regrets and hypotheses that never happened: “would have …”.
After necessity, wishes, emotion, doubt, or conjunctions like bien que.
Subjunctive for an action already completed.
The written narrative past: novels, history, and fairy tales.
A literary action completed immediately before another past action.
Literary subjunctive used inside past-tense narration.
Literary subjunctive for an action completed before another.
Literary variant of the past conditional, matching the pluperfect subjunctive.