French Verbs on One Pagethe tenses you actually need

The handful of tenses that cover almost everything you'll say in conversation, on one page.

• The tenses on one table

  Present, passé composé, imparfait and futur proche: what each one is for, side by side.

• Avoir or être?

  The short list of verbs that take être in the passé composé (mostly coming and going), and when the participle agrees.

• The verbs that do the heavy lifting

  Pouvoir, vouloir, devoir + infinitive: one conjugation, a thousand sentences.

• Reflexive verbs and si

  Je me lève, si j'avais le temps… the patterns that come up every day, without the headache.