Simple and Compound Tenses and Moods: Avoir Verbs

Temps et modes simples et composés

This chart shows the relationship between the conjugations of simple and compound French tenses and moods: each simple conjugation of avoir serves as the helping verb of a compound conjugation of the avoir verb vendre. English translations are provided just to give you a rough idea; click the links for detailed lessons on how to use and translate each tense and mood.

Simple Tense / Mood			Helping Verb		Compound Tense / Mood
Infinitive	vendre to sell		avoir		Past infinitive	avoir vendu to have sold
Present tense	je vends I sell		j’ai		Passé composé	j’ai vendu I have sold
Future	je vendrai I will sell		j’aurai		Future perfect	j’aurai vendu I will have sold
Conditional	je vendrais I would sell		j’aurais		Conditional perfect	j’aurais vendu I would have sold
Imperfect	je vendais I was selling		j’avais		Pluperfect	j’avais vendu I had sold
Passé simple	je vendis I sold		j’eus		Past anterior	j’eus vendu I sold
Subjunctive	je vende I sell		j’aie		Past subjunctive	j’aie vendu I sold
Imperfect subjunctive	je vendisse I sold		j’eusse		Pluperfect subjunctive	j’eusse vendu I had sold
Imperative	(tu) vends sell		aie		Past imperative	aie vendu have sold
Present participle	vendant selling		ayant		Perfect participle	ayant vendu having sold

Simple and compound French verb conjugations

• Avoir verbs
• Être verbs
• Pronominal verbs

 Related lessons

• Helping verbs: avoir vs être
• Compound modal verbs
• French verb timeline
• Introduction to verbs
• Introduction to verb conjugation
• Translating French verb conjugations

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