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Grammaire Le passé composé
The perfect tense – le passé composé – is used to describe what has happened, what someone has done or what happened in the past, e.g. j’ai mangé = I ate, I have eaten.
How to form it You need to remember that there are two parts to a perfect tense verb – the auxiliary verb (avoir / être) and the past participle. To create the perfect tense of regular verbs, use avoir in the present tense, then add the past participle.
For -er verbs, the past participle is created by dropping the -er and adding -é. Travailler = Travaillé J’ai travaillé = I worked
Tu as travaillé = You worked Il a travaillé = He worked
Nous avons travaillé = We worked Vous avez travaillé = You worked Ils ont travaillé = They worked
For -ir verbs, take the -ir off the end of the infinitive and add -i. e.g.: Nous avons choisi = We chose Elles ont fini = They finished
Form -re verbs by replacing the -re of the infinitive with -u, e.g.: Ils ont perdu = They lost
