FSF1D Exam Review Guide 2024
Verb Tenses / When do you use it? How is it used?
Mood Other important information.
(Verb endings, sentence examples, regular and irregular
verbs)
Présent Something that is Common verbs to know:
happening now. Irregular: Être, avoir, faire, aller,
*You must know these conjugations by heart
ER (e, es, e, ons, ez, ent)
RE (s, s, -, ons, ez, ent)
IR (is, is, it, issons, issez, issent)
Je J’achete
Tu rends
Il/Elle/On finit
Nous jouons
Vous vendez
Ils/ Elles choisissent
Passé Past actions Most of the verbs use “avoir” as the auxiliary.
Composé Finished action
Time stamp DR MRS VANDERTRAMPP
*These use “être” as the auxiliary
Compound verb (know all the verbs)
Auxiliary and the past Some verbs that can also use avoir (direct object… not on
participle. exam)
Auxiliary uses Parler: J’ai parlé
Être or avoir (same as Finir: Tu as fini
present tense) Vendre: Il/Elle a vendu
Agreement if the object comes before the verb.
Elle a aimé la télévision. Elle l’a aimée. (not on the exam)
Venir: Je suis venu
Naître: tu es né
Monter: Elle est montée
(agreement with être)
Mourir: Nous sommes mortes
The impératif Impératif: Present tense is the same for Impératif:
The subject is never Va! Allons! Allez! Finis! Finissons! Finissez! Bois! Buvons!
expressed. It is Buvez!
conjugated only in 3 ER lose -s in second person: Chante! Chantons! Chantez!
persons: the 2nd singular Regarde! Regardons! Regardez! Dessine! Dessinons!
(Tu), the 1st (Nous) and Dessinez!
the 2nd plural (Vous). It Verb irregulars
expresses an order, a AVOIR Aie! Ayons! Ayez!
prohibition or a ÊTRE Sois! Soyons! Soyez!
suggestion. There is a SAVOIR Sache! Sachons! Sois! Sois!
exclamation mark Sachez! ---- Le verbe VOULOIR: Veuillez...!
Negative:
Ne va pas! N'allons pas! N'allez pas! Ne finis pas! Ne finissons
pas! Ne finissez pas! Ne bois pas! Ne buvons pas! Ne buvez
Verb Tenses / When do you use it? How is it used?
Mood Other important information.
(Verb endings, sentence examples, regular and irregular
verbs)
Présent Something that is Common verbs to know:
happening now. Irregular: Être, avoir, faire, aller,
*You must know these conjugations by heart
ER (e, es, e, ons, ez, ent)
RE (s, s, -, ons, ez, ent)
IR (is, is, it, issons, issez, issent)
Je J’achete
Tu rends
Il/Elle/On finit
Nous jouons
Vous vendez
Ils/ Elles choisissent
Passé Past actions Most of the verbs use “avoir” as the auxiliary.
Composé Finished action
Time stamp DR MRS VANDERTRAMPP
*These use “être” as the auxiliary
Compound verb (know all the verbs)
Auxiliary and the past Some verbs that can also use avoir (direct object… not on
participle. exam)
Auxiliary uses Parler: J’ai parlé
Être or avoir (same as Finir: Tu as fini
present tense) Vendre: Il/Elle a vendu
Agreement if the object comes before the verb.
Elle a aimé la télévision. Elle l’a aimée. (not on the exam)
Venir: Je suis venu
Naître: tu es né
Monter: Elle est montée
(agreement with être)
Mourir: Nous sommes mortes
The impératif Impératif: Present tense is the same for Impératif:
The subject is never Va! Allons! Allez! Finis! Finissons! Finissez! Bois! Buvons!
expressed. It is Buvez!
conjugated only in 3 ER lose -s in second person: Chante! Chantons! Chantez!
persons: the 2nd singular Regarde! Regardons! Regardez! Dessine! Dessinons!
(Tu), the 1st (Nous) and Dessinez!
the 2nd plural (Vous). It Verb irregulars
expresses an order, a AVOIR Aie! Ayons! Ayez!
prohibition or a ÊTRE Sois! Soyons! Soyez!
suggestion. There is a SAVOIR Sache! Sachons! Sois! Sois!
exclamation mark Sachez! ---- Le verbe VOULOIR: Veuillez...!
Negative:
Ne va pas! N'allons pas! N'allez pas! Ne finis pas! Ne finissons
pas! Ne finissez pas! Ne bois pas! Ne buvons pas! Ne buvez
