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We form the passé composé using the auxiliary verbs avoir or être followed by the past participle (le participe passé) of the verb. Learn everything you need to know about the French passé composé with Lingolia’s quick and easy examples, then put your knowledge to the test in the free exercises.
- Free Exercise
Complete the sentences with the correct form of the passé...
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- Reflexive Verbs
Pronominal verbs and the participe passé. Pronominal verbs...
- Verb Conjugator
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- Past Participle
Le participe passé (the past participle) is an impersonal...
- Free Exercise
- Choose Your Helping Verb/Auxiliary Verb
- Add The Past Participle
- Make The Verb Agree in Number and Gender
The first step to conjugating a verb in the passé composé is to find out what helping verb (also called auxiliary verb) it uses: être or avoir.
Verbs in the passé composé are formed by putting together a helping verb (être or avoir) conjugated in the present tense + a past participle. Once you know what helping verb to use, all you need to do is add the past participle of the verb you want to conjugate. The majority of French verbs are regular and forming their past participle is easy. Sim...
Passé composé agreement of verbs using être as a helping verb
Verbs using être as a helping verb to form their passé composé agree in gender and number with the subject. 1. Je suis arrivé(e) => you add a e if the subject if female. 2. Ils sont arrivé(s) (you add a “s” is the subject is plural). 3. Elles sont arrivé(es) ( you add a e plus a s if the subject is plural and female.) If the subject is a group of 10 women and 1 man, you are supposed to act as if the entire group was male because French grammarconsiders that male always wins. There is, however...
Passé composé agreement of verbs using avoir as a helping verb
Verbs using avoir in the passé composé only need to agree with preceding direct objects. A simple way to know whether a verb has a preceding direct object is to ask what? after the verb. La tarte qu’elle a mangée était excellente. The tart she ate was excellent. Here you can say, she ate what? The tart. Since tart comes before the verb and is female, you need to agree in number and add a “e” to mangé. If this all sounds complicated don’t worry. While it takes a while to get used to all these...
- Camille Chevalier-Karfis
- What is the French Passé Composé? The passé composé is a French tense used for the past. The passé composé corresponds mostly to the English simple past or the present perfect.
- What is an Auxiliary Verb? An auxiliary verb helps another verb to form a tense. He has been gone for ever. Has = auxiliary verb. Been = auxiliary verb.
- What is a Participle? A participle is a verb form used with an auxiliary verb to form a tense, or when a verb is used as an adjective. 1. He has closed the window.
- French Passé Composé – Construction. Most verbs use “avoir”, to have to form their passé composé. A – To have conjugation. Conjugation. Translation. J’ai. I have.
Jan 26, 2024 · The passé composé is the French perfect tense and the most common past tense form in spoken French. We’ll walk you through all aspects of the passé composé: how to practice it, when to use it, how to form it, how to put it into negative statements and how to employ it in questions.
Apr 9, 2024 · The passé composé is used to narrate completed past events, mention something that took place at a defined moment, or to say what has happened. It is formed from two parts: an auxiliary verb and a past participle (more on that later). This is different from another main French past tense form: the imparfait (imperfect).
French has several different past tenses, and the most important one is the passé composé. Just to make things interesting, it has three possible English equivalents: 1. j’ai visité. I visited. simple past. 2. j’ai visité. I have visited.
Oct 6, 2019 · The passé composé is the most common French past tense, often used in conjunction with the imperfect. It is extremely important to understand the distinctions between past tenses in order to use them correctly and thus express past events accurately.
