d. me prévenir que tes parents venaient aussi.
e. si tu me téléphonais en arrivant.
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The present subjunctive
The subjunctive is a mood, not a tense. The mood of a verb determines how one
views an event. You have already studied verb tenses in the indicative mood (le
présent, l’imparfait, and le futur), stating objective facts, and in the conditional
mood, relating to possibilities. In Chapter 23 we will study the imperative mood
that gives commands. The subjunctive is another mood that refers to someone’s
opinion or deals with hypothetical actions.
For most verbs, the present of the subjunctive is formed by adding the sub-
junctive endings (-e, -es, -e, -ions, -iez, -ent) to the stem. The stem for je, tu, il/
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