Subjunctive tenses in French - About-France.com
about-france.com › french › subjunctiveConjugate verbs in the subjunctive tenses in French. Although it is not vital for communication, the subjunctive mood is used, and should be used, in a number of everyday grammatical contexts. It is used in everyday language in two tenses, the present and the perfect (or composite past); uses of other subjunctive tenses are nowadays confined to very literary, refined, stilted or administrative French.