SIMPLE TENSES. PRESENT. ....finir, to finish. COMPOUND TENSES. 78 Model verb in ir........ INDICATIVE MOOD. J'ai fini, nous finissons, we finish. you finish. vous finissez, ils finissent, they finish. IMPERFECT. I was finishing, or used to finish. PAST DEFINITE. Que je finisse, Que je finisse, I finished, or did finish. you finished. FUTURE. I shall finish. PRESENT. nous avons fini, J'avais fini, J'eus fini, I have finished. PAST ANTERIOR. I had finished. FUTURE ANTERIOR. J'aurai fini, CONDITIONAL I should finish. PRESENT. J'aurais fini, IMPERATIVE MOOD. that I may finish. IMPERFECT. que nous finissions, that I might finish. I shall have finished. finish thou. MOOD. Que j'aie fini, PAST. that I may that thou might&t PLUPERFECT. Que j'eusse fini, INFINITIVE MOOD. INFINITIVE....finir, avoir fini, ayant fini, .fini, that I might to have finished. have finished. have finished. Model verb in re INDICATIVE MOOD. I was selling, or used to sell. DEFINITE. I sold, or did sell. you sold. FUTURE. I shall sell. PRESENT. J'ai vendu, COMPOUND TENSES. tu as vendu, nous avons vendu, PLUPERFECT. I had sold, or been selling: I had sold. FUTURF ANTERIOR. J'aurai vendu, CONDITIONAL I should sell. PRESENT. J'aurais vendu, IMPERATIVE MOOD. Vends, qu'il vende, vendons, vendez, qu'ils vendent, sell thou, let him sell. I shall have sold. PAST. sell ye or you. SUBJUNCTIVE MOOD. that I may sell. I should have sold. PAST. INFINITIVE MOOD. INFINITIVE....vendre, to sell. avoir vendu, that I might to have sold. have sold. have sold. I. From the Present of the Infinitive are formed-1. The Future, by adding ai. 2. The Present of the Conditional, by adding ais-(oi is cut off in the third conj., and e omitted in the fourth.) 1. Chanter,......je chanter-ai,...... je chanter-ais. 3. Recevoir, je recev(oi)r-ai,....je recev(oi)r-ais. 2. Finir, ........je finir-ai, .........je finir-ais. 4. Vendre, .......je vendr(e)-ai, .....je vendr(e)-ais. II. From the Participle Present are formed-1. The plural of the Present Indicative, by changing ant into ons, ez, ent—(oi is kept instead of e in the third person of the third conjugation). 2. The Imperfect of the Indicative, by changing ant into ais, ais, ait, ions, iez, aient. 3. The Present of the Subjunctive, by changing ant into e, es, e, ions, iez, and ent―(oi is still kept instead of e, in the three persons singular, and the third only of the plural). III-IV. From the Past Participle, used with avoir or être, are formed all the compound tenses (see the model verbs); and from the Present of the Indicative are formed all the corresponding persons of the Imperative, by omitting the pronouns used as subjects to the verb. (The s of the second person singular of the first conjugation is suppressed, and the third persons are like those of the Present Subjunctive. See the model verbs.) V. From the second person singular of the Past Definite is formed the Imperfect of the Subjunctive, by adding se, ses, sions, siez, sent. (For the third person singular, change 8 into t, and place a circumflex accent upon the preceding vowel.) |