This document provides a table summarizing French modal auxiliaries and their equivalents in English. It lists modal verbs and expressions used to indicate obligation, prohibition, absence of obligation, permission, ability, inability, advice, and probability. For each modal verb or expression, it gives the present, past, and future forms in both French and English examples.
This document provides a table summarizing French modal auxiliaries and their equivalents in English. It lists modal verbs and expressions used to indicate obligation, prohibition, absence of obligation, permission, ability, inability, advice, and probability. For each modal verb or expression, it gives the present, past, and future forms in both French and English examples.
This document provides a table summarizing French modal auxiliaries and their equivalents in English. It lists modal verbs and expressions used to indicate obligation, prohibition, absence of obligation, permission, ability, inability, advice, and probability. For each modal verb or expression, it gives the present, past, and future forms in both French and English examples.
This document provides a table summarizing French modal auxiliaries and their equivalents in English. It lists modal verbs and expressions used to indicate obligation, prohibition, absence of obligation, permission, ability, inability, advice, and probability. For each modal verb or expression, it gives the present, past, and future forms in both French and English examples.
VERBALE MUST XXXX XXXX YOU MUST /HAVE TO/HAD TO/WILL HAVE TO OBLIGATION HAVE TO HAD TO WILL HAVE TO STOP SPEAKING (OBLIGATION)
MUSTN’T XXXX XXXX YOU MUSTN’T/CAN’T/ARE
FORBIDDEN TO/ARE NOT INTERDICTION CAN’T COULDN’T XXXX ALLOWED TO (PROHIBITION) /COULDN’T/WERE FORBIDDEN TO/WERE NOT BE FORBIDDEN TO BE FORBIDDEN TO WILL BE ALLOWED TO/WILL BE (AM/ARE/IS) (WAS/WERE) FORBIDDEN TO FORBIDDEN TO/WON’T BE ALLOWED TO SPEAK NOT BE ALLOWED NOT BE ALLOWED WON’T BE TO (AM NOT/ARE TO ALLOWED TO NOT/IS NOT) (WAS NOT/WERE NOT) DON’T HAVE TO DIDN’T HAVE TO WON’T HAVE YOU DON’T HAVE TO TO/NEEDN’T/DIDN’T HAVE ABSENCE NEEDN’T XXXX TO/WON’T HAVE TO COME D’OBLIGATION (ABSENCE OF XXXX OBLIGATION)
CAN COULD XXXX YOU CAN /ARE ALLOWED
TO/COULD/WERE PERMISSION BE ALLOWED TO BE ALLOWED TO WILL BE ALLOWED TO/WILL BE (PERMISSION) ALLOWED TO GO OUT (AM/ARE/IS) (WAS/WERE) ALLOWED TO
CAN COULD XXXX I CAN /AM ABLE
TO/COULD/WAS ABLE CAPACITE BE ABLE TO BE ABLE TO WILL BE ABLE TO/WILL BE ABLE TO RUN (ABILITY) FAST (AM/ARE/IS) (WAS/WERE) TO
CAN’T COULDN’T XXXX YOU CAN’T/ARE NOT ABLE
TO/COULDN’T/WERE NOT INCAPACITY NOT BE ABLE TO NOT BE ABLE TO WON’T BE ABLE ABLE TO/ WON’T BE ABLE (INABILITY) TO RUN FAST (AM NOT/ARE (WAS NOT/WERE TO NOT/IS NOT) NOT) SHOULD XXXX XXXX YOU SHOULD/ SHOULDN’T/ OUGHT TO/HAD BETTER CONSEIL SHOULDN’T XXXX XXXX CALL HER (ADVICE) IF I WERE YOU, I WOULD/WOULDN’T CALL OUGHT TO XXXX XXXX HER
HAD BETTER XXXX XXXX
IF I WERE YOU, I XXXX XXXX
WOULD/WOULDN’T
MUST MUST HAVE PP MUST SHE MUST/MAY/MIGHT BE
ILL PROBABILITY MAY MAY HAVE PP MAY SHE MUST/MAY/MIGHT (PROBABILITY) HAVE BEEN ILL MIGHT MIGHT HAVE PP MIGHT