Le passé composé

Le passé composé

Understand how to form the past tense in French

How to form the past tense in French?

It is a compound tense. It means that you need two verbs to form it. You will first need an auxiliary verb either AVOIR ou ETRE in present tense. Then you will need to add a past participle.

Example:

j'ai parlé (I spoke)

Je suis allé (I went)

The verbs avoir and etre in present tense

avoir = to have

être = to be

Past participles

How to form them

MR & Mrs Vandertramp verbs

These are the only verbs that take être as an auxiliary all the other verbs take avoir

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The passé composé is a ......... tense

• present

• future

• conditionnal

• past

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How do you translare 'I ate' in French?

• j'ai bu

• je suis mangé

• j'ai mangé

• j'aimerais manger

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How do you say 'I am'?

• je suis

• tu es

• il/elle est

• nous sommes

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How do you translate 'j'ai' in English?

• I was

• I have

• I eat

• I am

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How do you translate 'I went' in French?

• j'ai allé

• il est allé

• nous avons allé

• je suis allé

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To form it you need two things:

• verb être and infinitive

• verbs être or avoir and the past participle

• verb avoir and past participle

• past participle