# Which French tenses/moods/voices can I exclude from daily conversation?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-french-tenses-moods-voices-can-i-exclude-from-daily-conversation/697721>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [September 7, 2014, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-french-tenses-moods-voices-can-i-exclude-from-daily-conversation/697721 "2014-09-07T02:07:22Z")\
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**Author:** ![clairobscur](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/839c29/32.png) [@clairobscur](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/clairobscur)\
**Post date:** [October 6, 2014, 12:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-french-tenses-moods-voices-can-i-exclude-from-daily-conversation/697721/21 "2014-10-06T12:53:05Z")

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> [@davidmich](#):
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> Cettes commentaires m’ont vraiment beaucoup m’aidé. (Hope I expressed it correctly!)

The plural for “Ce, Cet, Cette” is always “Ces”. “Cettes” doesn’t exist. And anyway “commentaire” is masculine, so the singular would be “Ce”, not “Cette”.

(“Ce” and “Cet” are both masculine, “Cet” being used before words beginning by a vowel, “Ce” before words beginning by a consonant).

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**Author:** ![Svejk\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea666f/32.png) [@Svejk\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Svejk_1)\
**Post date:** [October 6, 2014, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-french-tenses-moods-voices-can-i-exclude-from-daily-conversation/697721/22 "2014-10-06T14:28:39Z")

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> [@davidmich](#):
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> Merci á tous.
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> Cettes commentaires m’ont vraiment beaucoup m’aidé. (Hope I expressed it correctly!)
> 
> davidmich

In addition to what **clairobscur** ’s pointed out, there’s also a double ‘me’ in that sentence.

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**Author:** ![davidmich](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e56c9b/32.png) [@davidmich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidmich)\
**Post date:** [October 6, 2014, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-french-tenses-moods-voices-can-i-exclude-from-daily-conversation/697721/23 "2014-10-06T15:20:29Z")

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So I should have written it this way then. “Ces commentaires m’ont vraiment beaucoup aidé”. (These posts/comments have really helped me)

Thanks for the tips.  
davidmich

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