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Le Passé Composé A compound compound tense in French equivalent to the simple past in English - compound compound means there are 2 2 parts to the verb Part 1 - auxiliary verb Part 2 - past participle Elle a acheté une voiture. Nous avons lu le journal ce matin.

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Page 1: Le Passé Composé compound compound 2 A compound tense in French equivalent to the simple past in English - compound means there are 2 parts to the verb

Le Passé Composé

A compoundcompound tense in French equivalent to the simple past in English - compoundcompound means there are 22 parts to the verb

Part 1 - auxiliary verb

Part 2 - past participle

Elle a acheté une voiture.

Nous avons lu le journal ce matin.

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Le verbe auxiliare

• The auxiliary verb is usually the verb AVOIRAVOIR

j’aij’ai

tu astu as

elle aelle a

nous avonsnous avons

vous avezvous avez

ils ontils ont

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Past participles

Form the past participle from the infinitive-

finir … fini

voyager … voyagé

rendre … rendu

There are many irregularirregular past participles -see p. 131-132 of your text for some of the common ones.

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Exception!

• There are about 17 verbs in French that use être être as the auxiliary

Être

je suistu eselle estnous sommesvous êtes ils sont

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Les verbes qui emploient être au passé composé

aller rentrerarriver resterdescendre retournerdevenir revenirentrer sortirmonter tombermourir venirnaîtrepartir (et tous les verbes pronominaux)passer

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When êtreêtre is the auxiliary, the past participle must agree in gender &

number with the subject.

Il est venu au restaurant.

Elle est venue au restaurant.

Nous sommes venus au restaurant.

Elles sont venues au restaurant.

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Maintenant, essayez:

Mettez les phrases au passé composé:

Je rentre après minuit…

Je suis rentrée après minuit.

Marc part à 19h…

Marc est parti à 19h.

Nous voyageons en France…

Nous avons voyagé en France.