Franklin bfs-840 Betriebsanweisung

Inflections show changes in a word’s
meaning or function. This dictionary in-
cludes extensive inflections of nouns,
verbs, modifiers, and other words.

2. Type a French word (e.g., écrire).
3. Press 

✩

and press BAS repeatedly  to
view more inflections.
If the word is a noun, an adjective, or
another modifier, then there won’t be
any other inflections.

 ➤ Getting Grammar Guidance

When viewing inflections, you can
press 

 to view detailed descrip-

tions of how to use inflections, with
usage examples.

 ➤ Viewing English Inflections

If you are unfamiliar with inflections, it
may be helpful to look at some
inflected forms of English verbs.
Switch the entry language back to
English, type 

be, and press 

 to

see the different forms of the English
verb “to be”. This will give you a good
idea of each inflection form.

 ➤ Verb Inflection Forms

Your French Professor has the follow-
ing verb forms: present indicative, im-
perfect indicative, past definite, future,
conditional, present subjunctive, im-
perfect subjunctive, perfect indicative,
pluperfect indicative, preterite anterior,
future perfect, conditional perfect,
perfect subjunctive, pluperfect sub-
junctive, imperative, and the present
participle.

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