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Samantha Chuck
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Plus-que-parfait
A past tense

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Plus-que-parfait
Le plus-que-parfait (pqp) is a past tense. You can think of it as the past tense of the imparfait. Grammatically, it is a combination of the passé composé and the imparfait.
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Plus-que-parfait
passé composé + imparfait = plus-que-parfait
It is used to talk about an action in the past that happened before another past action.
In many cases you need to reference another past action or point in time
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English
I had eaten breakfast.
We had read the article before arriving.
By the time she ate dinner, she had already eaten four snacks.
By 2020 the students had used Google Classroom a lot.
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Formation
aux verb + past participle
aux verb = avoir or être, follows the same rules as the passé composé
aux verb is in the imparfait
the past participles are the same as in the passé composé!
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Avoir
J'avais
Tu avais
Il avait
Nous avions
Vous aviez
Il avaient
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Être
J'étais
Tu étais
Il était
Nous étions
Vous étiez
Ils étaient
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en français
J'avais mangé le petit déjeuner
Nous avions lu l'article avant d'arriver.
Lorsqu'elle a mangé le dîner, elle avait déjà mangé quatre collations
Par 2020, les élèves avaient déjà utilisés Google Classroom beaucoup
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Multiple Choice
How would you say "they had already arrived"?
Ils avaient déjà arrivés
Ils étaient déjà arrivaient
Ils étaient déjà arrivés
Ils étaient déjà arrivé
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Multiple Choice
How would you say "We had seen the movie twice"?
Nous avions vu le film deux fois
Nous étions vu le film deux fois
Nous avions vus le film deux fois
Nous avions voyions le film deux fois
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Multiple Choice
How would you say "Coraline had learned to walk"?
Coraline était apprise à marcher
Coraline avait apprise à marcher
Coraline a apprenait à marcher
Coraline avait appris à marcher
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A past tense

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