{"id":14855,"date":"2012-05-25T08:00:11","date_gmt":"2012-05-25T06:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/?p=14855"},"modified":"2017-10-20T13:02:30","modified_gmt":"2017-10-20T11:02:30","slug":"indicative-or-subjunctive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/indicative-or-subjunctive\/","title":{"rendered":"Indicative or subjunctive?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Last Friday we took a look at how some <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/le-subjonctif-present-irregular-verbs\/\">irregular verbs <\/a>are conjugated in the Present Subjunctive in French. It is not always easy to know when to use verbs in the Indicative or Subjunctive mode in French so I gathered some key expressions to help you when to use the indicative or subjunctive in French, d&#8217;accord?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">One tip: make sure you pay attention to how verb tenses are used when you are reading a text or listening to French. Being analytical helps you a lot if you already have a good grammar background, so let&#8217;s get down to work!<\/p>\n<table border=\"1\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\" valign=\"top\" width=\"288\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Subjunctive<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\" valign=\"top\" width=\"288\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Indicative<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\" valign=\"top\" width=\"288\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Je veux que<\/p>\n<p>Je d\u00e9sire que<\/p>\n<p>Je souhaite que<\/p>\n<p>J&#8217;ai peur que<\/p>\n<p>Je crains que<\/p>\n<p>J&#8217;ai envie<\/p>\n<p>J&#8217;ai besoins<\/p>\n<p>Je refuse<\/p>\n<p>J&#8217;emp\u00eache que<\/p>\n<p>Je regrette que<\/p>\n<p>Je doute que<\/p>\n<p>Je ne pense pas que<\/p>\n<p>Je ne crois pas que<\/p>\n<p>Je ne suis pas s\u00fbr(e) que<\/p>\n<p>Il est n\u00e9cessaire que<\/p>\n<p>Il faut que<\/p>\n<p>Il est possible que<\/p>\n<p>Il est impossible que<\/p>\n<p>Il est obligatoire que<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"288\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">J&#8217;esp\u00e8re que<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Je confirme que<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Je sais que<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Je constate que<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Je v\u00e9rifie que<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Je remarque que<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">J&#8217;observe que<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Je vois que<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Je dis que<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">J&#8217;affirme que<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Je suis convaincu<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Je pense que<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Je crois que<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Je suis s\u00fbr(e) que<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Il est certain<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Il est s\u00fbr<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Il est \u00e9vident<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Il est vrai<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Il est clair<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Want more free resources to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.transparent.com\/learn-french\/\">learn French<\/a>? Check out the other goodies we offer to help make your language learning efforts a daily habit.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<img width=\"350\" height=\"262\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2012\/05\/dicionario-education-350x262.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image tmp-hide-img\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2012\/05\/dicionario-education-350x262.jpg 350w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2012\/05\/dicionario-education.jpg 380w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><p>Last Friday we took a look at how some irregular verbs are conjugated in the Present Subjunctive in French. It is not always easy to know when to use verbs in the Indicative or Subjunctive mode in French so I gathered some key expressions to help you when to use the indicative or subjunctive in&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-item__readmore\"><a class=\"btn btn--md\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/indicative-or-subjunctive\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":14868,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[346],"class_list":["post-14855","post","type-post","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-grammar","tag-french-grammar"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14855"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14855\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28373,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14855\/revisions\/28373"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}