{"id":67000,"date":"2018-07-16T17:38:40","date_gmt":"2018-07-16T17:38:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/schooltutoring.com\/scholarship\/?p=67000"},"modified":"2018-07-16T17:38:40","modified_gmt":"2018-07-16T17:38:40","slug":"conjugating-verbs-in-the-passe-compose-en-francais","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/schooltutoring.com\/scholarship\/2018\/07\/16\/conjugating-verbs-in-the-passe-compose-en-francais\/","title":{"rendered":"Conjugating Verbs in the Pass\u00e9 Compos\u00e9 (en fran\u00e7ais)"},"content":{"rendered":"

For many students learning French, the pass\u00e9 compos\u00e9 is the first past tense taught. Keep reading to master this grammar component!<\/p>\n

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The Auxiliary Verb<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n

The pass\u00e9 compos\u00e9 is composed of a helping verb (the auxiliary verb) and the past participle of the main verb. The helping verb is always the present indicative form of Avoir or \u00catre.<\/p>\n

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AVOIR or \u00caTRE? <\/b><\/h3>\n

All verbs use avoir except DR MRS VANDERTRAMP verbs (below) and reflexive verbs (ex. se laver), which use \u00eatre. <\/span><\/p>\n

D<\/b> = devenir <\/span><\/p>\n

R<\/b> = revenir <\/span><\/p>\n

M<\/b> = mourir <\/span><\/p>\n

R<\/b> = retourner <\/span><\/p>\n

S<\/b> = sortir<\/span><\/p>\n

V<\/b> = venir<\/span><\/p>\n

A<\/b> = aller<\/span><\/p>\n

N<\/b> = na\u00eetre<\/span><\/p>\n

D<\/b> = descendre <\/span><\/p>\n

E<\/b> =entrer<\/span><\/p>\n

R<\/b> = rentrer <\/span><\/p>\n

T<\/b> = tomber <\/span><\/p>\n

R<\/b> = rester <\/span><\/p>\n

A<\/b> = arriver <\/span><\/p>\n

M<\/b> = montre <\/span><\/p>\n

P<\/b> = partir \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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The Past Participle<\/b><\/h3>\n

The past participles of regular verbs follow simple rules. Change the ending of the verb to the corresponding letter.<\/span><\/p>\n

ER <\/b>– <\/span>\u00e9\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/span>ex. parler = parl\u00e9<\/span><\/p>\n

IR <\/b>– i<\/span> \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0ex. choisir = choisi<\/span><\/p>\n

RE <\/b>– u\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0ex. vendre = vendu<\/span><\/p>\n

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Irregular Verbs <\/b><\/h3>\n

Just like the present tense, there are many irregular verbs in the <\/span>pass\u00e9 compos\u00e9. The following is a list of the most common irregulars and their past participles.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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Complete Examples<\/b><\/h3>\n

Nous <\/span>avons lu<\/span><\/i> deux cents livres l’\u00e9t\u00e9 pass\u00e9.<\/span><\/p>\n

Je <\/span>suis tomb\u00e9<\/span><\/i> dans la rue et je <\/span>me suis cass\u00e9<\/span><\/i> la jambe. (Notice that the reflexive pronoun me proceeds the auxiliary verb. This is always the case with reflexive verbs.)<\/span><\/p>\n

Tu <\/span>as perdu<\/span><\/i> tes cl\u00e9s? <\/span><\/p>\n

Est-ce qu\u2019il <\/span>a parl\u00e9<\/span><\/i> avec eux?<\/span><\/p>\n

Ils <\/span>ont march\u00e9<\/span><\/i> au frigo. \u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00catre Agreements <\/b><\/h3>\n

The past participles of \u00a0verbs that use \u00eatre as their auxiliary must make agreements with the subject in terms of gender and number. If the subject is feminine, add e, and if the subject if plural, add s.<\/span><\/p>\n

Ex. Elles sont all\u00e9<\/span>es <\/span><\/i>au cin\u00e9ma hier soir.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Je suis n\u00e9<\/span>e <\/span><\/i>en Ontario, au Canada. (here the subject is feminine) <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Il est n\u00e9 aux \u00c9tats Unis. <\/span><\/p>\n

Basic Negation of the <\/b>Pass\u00e9 Compos\u00e9<\/b><\/h3>\n

When negating, the ne and pas sandwich the auxiliary and the past participle follows the pas. <\/span><\/p>\n

Ex. Il n\u2019est pas all\u00e9 \u00e0 la plage la semaine derni\u00e8re.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Je n\u2019ai pas mang\u00e9 tous les biscuits. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n

Pro Tip<\/b><\/h3>\n

If a verb ends in one of the above irregular verbs, usually (but not always) its past participle is conjugated the same.<\/span><\/p>\n

Ex. The past participle for apprendre is appris since the past participle for prendre is pris<\/span><\/p>\n

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For many students learning French, the pass\u00e9 compos\u00e9 is the first past tense taught. Keep reading to master this grammar component! The Auxiliary Verb The pass\u00e9 compos\u00e9 is composed of a helping verb (the auxiliary verb) and the past participle of the main verb. The helping verb is always the present indicative form of Avoir […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":67003,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2844,3016,3017,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","category-resources","category-review","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/schooltutoring.com\/scholarship\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/schooltutoring.com\/scholarship\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/schooltutoring.com\/scholarship\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schooltutoring.com\/scholarship\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schooltutoring.com\/scholarship\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/schooltutoring.com\/scholarship\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67000\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schooltutoring.com\/scholarship\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/schooltutoring.com\/scholarship\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schooltutoring.com\/scholarship\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schooltutoring.com\/scholarship\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}