Complete conjugation table for Falloir (To be necessary)

Falloir (To be necessary) is one of the most common verbs in French. Falloir is also what we call an impersonal verb, meaning it lacks a subject. It’s always used in the third person singular form, regardless of the subject of the sentence. This is because it expresses a necessity or obligation, which is considered to be a general requirement rather than something specific to any particular person.

So you might say il faut for “it is necessary,” but you wouldn’t conjugate it for other persons like je faut or tu faut. Instead, if you want to specify who the necessity applies to, you would use an indirect object with the preposition à, like il me faut for “I need” or il lui faut for “he/she needs”.

Category:	Irregular verb
Infinitiv:	Falloir
Auxiliary:	Avoir

	Present	Imperfect	Passé composé	Futur simple	Conditional	Subjunctive
Je/j’
Tu
Il/Elle	faut	fallait	a fallu	faudra	faudrait	faille
Nous
Vous
Ils/Elles
	Passé simple	Plus-que-parfait	Futur antérieur	Past conditional	Imperfect subj.	Past subjunctive
Je/j’
Tu
Il/Elle	fallut	avait fallu	aura fallu	aurait fallu	fallût	ait fallu
Nous
Vous
Ils/Elles
	Pluperfect Subj.	Past Anterior		Imperative
Je/j’				Tu	faut
Tu				Nous
Il/Elle	eût fallu	eut fallu		Vous
Nous
Vous
Ils/Elles
Participle
Present	fallant
Past	fallu