I was wondering if the 'subjonctif' is used often nowadays? When I learnt it at school, my teacher said that you can't speak French without it. Is this actually true?
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3Trust your teacher! Subjonctif is inescapable in French. – jlliagre May 1 '17 at 20:31
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Extensive answers on when the subjunctive is required: Difficultés avec le subjonctif, Les conjonctions qui déclenchent le subjonctif. – Laure SO - Écoute-nous May 2 '17 at 7:59
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Subjonctif is absolutely required to correctly express basic things such as doubt, duty, hypotheticals, etc.
Some tenses of subjonctif (specifically the past tenses) are currently no longer used as much as they used to outside of the literary context.
