Transcript Passé Composé with Avoir
Point de départ
In order to talk about events in the past, French uses two principal tenses: the
passé composé
and the imperfect. In this lesson, you will learn how to form the
passé composé
, which is used to express actions or states of being completed in the past. You will learn about the imperfect in
Leçon 7B
.
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The
passé composé
of most verbs is formed with a present-tense form of
avoir
(the auxiliary verb) followed by the past participle of the verb expressing the action.
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The past participle of a regular
-er
replacing the
-er
verb is formed by ending of the infinitive with
é
.
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Most regular
-er composé
verbs are conjugated in the like the verb
parler passé
shown below.
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To make a verb negative in the
passé composé
, place
ne/n’
and
pas
around the conjugated form of
avoir
. To ask questions using inversion in the
passé composé
, invert the subject pronoun and the conjugated form of
avoir
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The adverbs
hier
(
yesterday
) and
avant-hier
(
the day before yesterday
) are used often with the
passé composé
. Place the adverbs
déjà
,
encore
,
bien
,
mal
, and
beaucoup
between the auxiliary verb or
pas
and the past participle.
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The past participle of spelling-change
-er
verbs has no spelling changes.
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The past participle of most
-ir
verbs is formed by replacing the
-ir
ending with
-i
.
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The
passé composé
of
il faut il y a eu
. is
il a fallu
; that of
il y a
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Essayez!
Indiquez les formes du passé composé des verbes.
1.
2.
tu ________________________ (servir, comprendre, donner)
3.
on ________________________ (parler, avoir, dormir)
4.
nous ________________________ (adorer, faire, amener)
5.
vous ________________________ (prendre, employer, courir)
6.
elles ________________________ ( espérer, boire, apprendre) © 2015 by Vista Higher Learning, Inc. All rights reserved.
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