Le mode Indicatif or indicative Mode

The indicative mood is the most commonly used verb mood in French. It is used to express facts, real actions or certainties. The indicative mode is used to describe past, present or future events objectively.

This mode includes simple beats and compound beats. You will find them on this page.

Le present is a verb tense used to describe an action that is taking place at the time of speaking or to express a general truth.

It is a basic tense in French and it is essential for communicating in everyday life.

It is relatively easy to conjugate and use, making it one of the first verb tenses studied when learning French.

L'imparfait is a verb tense used to describe an action or situation that happened in the past in a continuous, habitual or unfinished way.

It is an important time for telling stories, describing past scenes and creating atmosphere in a narrative.

Its conjugation is regular for most verbs, which facilitates its learning.

Le futur simple is a verb tense used to express actions or events that will occur in the future.

It is important to note that the future simple is often used with expressions of time such as "tomorrow", "next week", "in a few years", to situate the action in the future.

Mastering the future simple is essential for expressing future actions or events in French.

Le passé simple is a verb tense used primarily in literary writing to describe past, specific, one-time actions.

It is important to note that this tense is less commonly used in speech and everyday language, where the imperfect and the past tense are more frequently used to describe past actions.

However, it is useful to know and understand the past simple to appreciate and analyze literary works in French.

The passé composé is a verb tense used to describe past actions that are considered finished and that have a link with the present.

The compound past tense is one of the most common verb tenses used to talk about past actions in French.

It is frequently used orally and in writing in everyday communication.

Le plus que parfait is a verb tense used to describe a past action prior to another past action in a story.

It is used mainly in writing, stories and narrations to indicate anteriority between past actions.

It allows you to create a more complex temporal structure and give more depth to a story.

Le futur antérieur is a verb tense used to express a future action that will be accomplished before another future action.

It is used mainly in writing and formal speeches to express the anteriority of a future action over another future action.

It allows to create a complex temporal structure and to highlight the chronology of events.