9 different past tenses?!

Katherine F.A2Kwiziq community member

9 different past tenses?!

Why are there 9 different types of past tense? NINE?! 🤯 Will even a native speaker really use all those? I give up lol

This question relates to:French lesson "to want"
Asked 2 days ago
Jim J.C1 Kwiziq Q&A super contributor

Bonjour Katherine,

You are on a mission to learn the French language and grammar.

You can choose to what extent you want to carry out this mission  --  do you want a superficial understanding or a comprehensive understanding?

Entirely up to you, but a comprehensive understanding is just that   -->    Comprehensive 

Bonne continuation

Jim

Katherine F. asked:

9 different past tenses?!

Why are there 9 different types of past tense? NINE?! 🤯 Will even a native speaker really use all those? I give up lol

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