Faire – Causative Construction
The causative is a grammatical construction with a lazy subject who, rather than performing some action himself, is making someone or something else do it: to make something happen, to have something done. Grammar Lessons
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The causative is a grammatical construction with a lazy subject who, rather than performing some action himself, is making someone or something else do it: to make something happen, to have something done. B1 - Intermediate French • verbs
Faire – to do, to make
One of the most common and useful French verbs, faire literally means "to do" or "to make" but it's also found in many idiomatic expressions and is the key to the causative construction. Falloir
The irregular French verb falloir means "to need," "to be necessary," or "to be lacking." Since falloir is an impersonal verb, it has only one conjugation in each tense and mood: the third person singular; for example, the present tense il faut. A2 - Low-Intermediate French • verbs
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Finir – to finish
The regular -ir verb finir, "to finish," is normally pretty simple, but different prepositions and auxiliary verbs can make it a little tricky. Foreign Adjectives
French has borrowed or adapted a number of adjectives from other languages, and they are always invariable. Formal Negation
French has three negative constructions that are reserved for formal (usually written) French like literature and historical accounts. B2 - Upper-Intermediate French • formalities • negation
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Wouldn't it be nice if you could plan a perfect future? Too bad that's not what the future perfect tense does. The grammatical term "perfect" means "completed," so the future perfect is used to talk about something that will have happened or will have been completed at some point in the future. B1 - Intermediate French • tenses moods voices
Future Perfect Conjugations
Like all compound French verb forms, future perfect conjugations have two components: a conjugated auxiliary verb plus past participle. Future Tense
In English, we use the modal "will" plus a verb to talk about actions that will take place in the future, but in French there's a future tense with a full set of conjugations for every verb. The uses of these two constructions are very similar. A2 - Low-Intermediate French • lesson plans • tenses moods voices
Future Tense Conjugations
French future conjugations are, along with the conditional, the easiest in the entire language. 
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Aller is one of the most common and important French verbs. It generally means "to go," is key to the near future construction, and is also found in many expressions. This issue of Lawless French à fond takes an in-depth look at going everywhere with 
