The French Subjunctive - Full Course - Intermediate Level

Explore the French subjunctive: understand its meaning, contrast with the indicative, and see how the present and past subjunctive express simultaneity, posteriority, and anteriority within phrases.

Learn how to use the French present and past subjunctive, when to apply them, the mandatory 'que' and fixed expressions like 'vive le roi', and how 'j'aimerais' expresses a wish.

Express obligation and necessity in French with il faut que followed by the subjunctive. Distinguish subject-specific versus impersonal usage and learn il est + adjectif + que or the infinitive.

Practice the subjunctive usage by listening to an audio document about the disappearance of sand, and listen twice before answering the questions.

Explore how the French subjunctive expresses an opinion within the full course at the intermediate level.

Strengthen oral comprehension of the French subjunctive by listening to an audio document twice before answering questions.

Explore how the French subjunctive expresses feelings, with verb patterns and structures for anger, worry, joy, fear, sadness, and surprise, plus formal and informal usages and practice.

Learn how French verbs expressing wish, will, or command trigger the subjunctive, while espérer takes the indicative; with two subjects use the subjunctive, otherwise use the infinitive; practice exercises.

Explore how the subjunctive marks doubt and uncertainty in French, including structures with negation and inversion, common pitfalls with douter and sans doute, and expressing possibility or probability.

Explore how the subjunctive (le subjonctif) expresses possibility or low probability, used when chances are below 50 percent. When chances exceed 50 percent, use the indicative.

Practice the French subjunctive by listening to an audio document, then listen twice before answering the questions.

Practice the use of the subjunctive through radio advertisement listening comprehension by listening to an audio document twice before answering the questions.

Explore subordinating conjunctions and the subjunctive, including purpose, time, cause, concession, consequence, restriction, and condition; learn when two subjects require the subjunctive versus infinitive after a single subject.

Study the explétif ne in the French subjunctive, used after expressions of fear or obstruction, after avant que and à moins que, and in comparisons, noting ne pas for negatives.