The passé composé The passé composé expresses what happened in the past sometimes called the past perfect tense Its not the only French past tense It has 2 parts helping auxiliary verb ID: 678264
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Le Passé Composé
Past Tense (Past Perfect)Slide2
The passé
composé
The passé composé expresses what happened in the past (sometimes called the past perfect tense)It’s not the only French past tenseIt 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 -éSlide3
Example:
regarder (to look at, to watch)
J’ ai regardé nous avons regardéTu as regardé
vous avez regardéIl, elle, on a regardé ils, elles
ont regardéSlide4
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. Slide5
Examples of regular er
verbs
Il a mangé une banane.J’ai achèté une baguette au supermarché.
Il a
trouvé
un très bon restaurant. Slide6
Example
conjuation:
grandir
- to grow
J’ai grandi nous avons grandiTu as grandi vous avez
grandiIl, elle, on a grandi ils, elles
ont
grandiFor –
ir verb past participle, drop the r from the endSlide7
For –re verb past participle, change re into
u
Example:
vendre
- to sellJ’ai vendu nous avons venduTu as vendu vous avez vendu
Il, elle, on a vendu ils, elles ont
venduSlide8
Passé
Composé of Irregular Verbs
Irregular verbs use avoir as the helping verb in p.c., but they have irregular past participles, which need memorizedÊtre- to be= été Avoir- to have = eu
Vouloir
- to wish, to want=
vouluBoire- to drink= buFaire- to make, to do= faitVoir- to see = vuLire- 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)Slide9
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.Slide10