Falloir – to be necessary

French Verb Conjugations

	Present	Imperfect	Future		Conditional	Subjunctive		Imperfect subj.
il	faut	fallait	faudra		faudrait	faille		fallût
	Passé composé	Past perfect	Future perfect		Past conditional	Past subjunctive		Pluperfect subj.
il	a fallu	avait fallu	aura fallu		aurait fallu	ait fallu		eût fallu
	Passé simple	Past anterior		Imperative		Participles
il	fallit	eut fallu			n/a		Present	n/a
							Past	fallu
				Past imperative			Perfect	ayant fallu
					n/a
						Past infinitive
							avoir fallu

Il faut faire attention ! You have to pay attention!
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 Falloir is an irregular -ir verb and an impersonal verb.

Lessons

• How to use falloir
• Does falloir need the subjunctive?
• Expressions with falloir
• Falloir vs devoir

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