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
• Word order with compound tenses/moods

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