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Infinitive Imperative Compound Tenses* Pass compos Pluperfect Past anterior Future perfect Conditional perfect Past subjunctive Pluperfect subjunctive Perfect participle Past infinitive Past imperative
Compound tenses are always made up of two parts: the conjugated auxiliary verb and the past participle. French verbs are classified by their auxiliary verb, either avoir or tre. Each verb uses the same auxiliary verbs in all of the compound tenses. In the chart above, the tense in the simple column is the tense used as the auxiliary verb for the compound tense listed next to it.