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Transcript
Le Passé
Composé
Past Tense (Past Perfect)
The passé composé
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The passé composé expresses what
happened in the past (sometimes called
the past perfect tense)
It’s not the only French past tense
It has 2 parts: helping (auxiliary) verb and
a past participle.
The helping verb for most verbs is avoir.
You form the past participle of most –er
verbs by replacing the –er with -é
Example: regarder (to look at, to
watch)
J’ ai regardé
nous avons regardé
Tu as regardé
vous avez regardé
Il, elle, on a regardé ils, elles ont regardé
 Passé
composé is the equivalent of 3
ways to express past tense in English:
Ex. J’ai mangé =
1. I ate
2. I have eaten.
3. I did eat.
 To say what didn’t happen, place
ne…pas around the helping verb.
Ex. Je n’ai pas mangé le petit-déjeuner
aujourd’hui.
Examples of regular er verbs
Il
a mangé une banane.
J’ai achèté une baguette au
supermarché.
Il a trouvé un très bon restaurant.
For –ir verb past participle, drop the r
from the end
Example conjuation: grandir- to
grow
 J’ai
grandi
 Tu as grandi
 Il, elle, on a grandi
nous avons grandi
vous avez grandi
ils, elles ont grandi
For –re verb past participle, change re
into u
Example: vendre- to sell
 J’ai
vendu
 Tu as vendu
 Il, elle, on a vendu
nous avons vendu
vous avez vendu
ils, elles ont vendu
Passé Composé of Irregular Verbs
 Irregular
verbs use avoir as the helping verb in p.c.,
but they have irregular past participles, which
need memorized
Être- to be= été
Avoir- to have = eu
Vouloir- to wish, to want= voulu
Boire- to drink= bu
Faire- to make, to do= fait
Voir- to see = vu
Lire- to read = lu
Pleuvoir- to rain= plu
 The passé composé of il y a (there is, there are) is
il y a eu (There was)
Irregular Examples
Hier, il a plu, et il a fait mauvais.
 J’ai bu un café au petit- déjeuner.
 J’ai été au cinéma, et j’ai vu un film super.
 Nous avons eu une classe d’anglais lundi.
 Elle a voulu un chocolat chaud.
 Ils ont lu le roman Le Petit Prince.
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