French Verb Tenses

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• Which French tense is normally used for a completed, specific event in the past, especially when the event advances…
• In the sentence “Quand il était jeune, il jouait au tennis,” why is the imperfect tense used for “jouait”?
• Which form correctly expresses “She will have finished” in French?
• Which French tense is generally used to express a hypothetical result or a regret about the past?
• By next summer, she will have completed the course; in French, this requires the [____] tense.
• The French tense used to describe an ongoing background action or a past habit is the [____] tense.
• In “When I arrived, they had already left,” the earlier past action is expressed with the [____] tense in French.
• After “although” in a sentence expressing doubt or concession, French may require the [____] mood and tense.