French Verbs & Tenses explained in 10 minutes!

Do you struggle to understand French verbs and the main tenses in French? In this video, I’ll help you understand basic French grammar and give you a full timeline of French Verb tenses.

All French verb tenses:
Passé composé explained ✅
Futur Proche explained ✅
Futur Simple explained ✅
Futur Antérieur explained ✅
French présent explained ✅
French impératif explained ✅
Présent progressif explained ✅
Passé récent explained ✅
Imparfait explained ✅
Plus-que-parfait explained ✅

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[nm]

Excellent!! The best explanation ever, especially with showing it on the time-line board. Genuis. I have always struggled with this, and now your awesome video explained it all. Un monde de remerciment!

[meera]

french learners relax, i am a native french myself and i have to watch this for a basic french test at school lol

[marieldavidson]

I went to 10 years of french school, and no one... NO ONE has ever explained it this well to me. Thank you from the bottom of my heart

[healthcarefails]

This timeline is incredibly useful. As I study French, I refer back to this timeline. As a visual learner, it helps tremendously to be able to SEE the relationship between the different tenses. Thank you for putting this together.

[davidcalderwood]

Merci. J’ai commencé mes études de français il y a 40 ans et j’ai développé un amour pour la langue.

[lindab]

I had 4 years of French and never properly understood some of the tenses. This explanation using the timeline is so helpful! Thank you!

[bpmmcg]

This is by far the best French lesson I've ever had... thank you so much for your hard work this was such an ingenious way of showing how tenses change.

[leeannsolice]

LOVE your use of timeline and colors to represent the different tenses! Excellent visualization of this complex concept. My only tiny tip is to explain that the term "perfect/parfait" doesn't have its usual meaning of "without flaws" but in the context of verb conjugation it means "complete." Explaining this to my own language learners helped them to embed an understanding that tenses like "past perfect" were actions *completed* in the past, or "Future perfect" was action that will have been completed in the future. Thank you so much for such a clear, beautiful and precise video!

[sarahmcdonnell]

I am learning French at school and find this video incredibly helpful. It's so much easier to see the tenses all compared this way rather than separate! Thank you very much.

[onyeenoma]

You explained something my teachers could not explain for years within a few minutes. Thank you

[jovibaby]

verb tenses are the biggest things holding me back from leaving my French A2 plateau and entering the B level. i always get them mixed up or just forget them. having the visual along with the thoughtful explanations helped so much! this video was SO helpful, i paused and took notes as i watched and had so many "aha!" moments! merci beaucoup!!!

[haleyzerr]

I learned more about English grammar during my high school French classes than I ever did from my English teachers. 🤷‍♀️

[recalled]

I am a french native speaker from Canada and i have to say that i'vr never had a teacher explain tenses that well to me, good job Alexa!!

[KimberlyGreen]

I would pay money for a nice quality poster of this timeline! It's fantastic and so clearly explains the time relationships and verb tenses. 💡🙏🏻👍🏻

[heatherallingham]

Seeing the timeline mapped out makes this so much clearer - SO helpful! Merci beaucoup :)

[Zach-rkrw]

Didnt even understand these tenses in english which made it harder at school. Thanks for clarifying!

[alisonmorris]

That was the most helpful, easy-to-understand explanation of French tenses I have ever seen!! I love the graphic timeline!! That visual is so effective in visualizing the tenses. You did an amazing job!!

[jamesfleming]

The most helpful video on YouTube for all new french learners

[davidphelan]

Genius! You have cut through so much confusion and frustration with this handy reference timeline. I have never seen anything explained so clearly, it should be in every French language textbook. I copied this lesson and saved it to my favorites at the top of the page for ease of access as I plan on going over and over this lesson and the others that you mentioned.
Thank you so much.

[margaretcroft]

I fortuitously found this video this morning and so grateful for it! Wonderful clear explanation of the tenses! Ive been studying French with Duolingo and while it’s fun, they just throw the tenses at you in the lessons without a good explanation ! This is ever so helpful… going to rewatch with and take notes for reference, and will subscribe to your channel! Merci beaucoup!