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How do you conjugate a verb in the passé composé?
How do you make a passé composé of a verb?
How do you conjugate a French verb?
How do you conjugate a verb in a tense?
- 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...
Embark on a journey to conquer the Passé Composé with our comprehensive lesson! In this video, we dissect the intricacies of French verb conjugation, providi...
