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How many French tenses are there?

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The eight simple forms can also be categorised into your tenses (future, present, past and future-of-the-past) or into two aspects (perfective and imperfective). The three non-finite moods are the infinitive, past participle,and present participle. There are compound constructions that use more than one verb.
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Tenses

The tenses used in French to place a verb in time:

Présent : The present
Passé simple : The preterite or simple past
Passé compose : The past tense / narration tense
Passé antérieur : The past perfect
Imparfait : The present subjunctive
Futur simple : The future tense
Plus que parfait : The past subjunctive
Futur Anteriéur : Future perfect (an action that will have been completed before a certain point in the future)
Subjonctif présent
Subjonctif passé
Subjonctif imparfait
Subjonctif perfect
Conditional present
Conditional passé 1
Conditional passé 2
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