Imperfect Subjunctive
A literary tense built on the passé simple stem (qu'il fût, qu'il eût, qu'elle chantât) used for tense agreement after a past main verb in formal written French. Modern spoken and everyday written French replaces it with the present subjunctive, so the practical skill is recognition when reading classic texts, not production.
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A literary tense built on the passé simple stem (qu'il fût, qu'il eût, qu'elle chantât) used for tense agreement after a past main verb in formal written French. Modern spoken and everyday written French replaces it with the present subjunctive, so the practical skill is recognition when reading classic texts, not production.
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