![]() ![]() But fear not: You really just need to learn the most useful verbs and how to handle regular verbs, and you can learn the rest of the French conjugation rules along the way. ![]() With three groups, lots of tenses, and literal truckloads of exceptions, you’ll have plenty of material to stay busy for a while. Remember that the opposite of déjà is the negative expression pas encore, just as 'already' is replaced by 'yet' in English.Haven’t we all heard that we should live in the present, soak in the moment, and avoid dwelling on the past or fearing the future? Well…forget about all that as you jump on the conjugation train! You’ll learn how to talk about the past and tell cool life stories, and how to shape the future by planning for dates or festivities.įrench conjugation can seem overwhelming at first, and it’s undeniably more complex than English conjugation, but once you start getting the inner logic, it will all make sense. In affirmative sentences in French, it is often, but not always, accompanied by the adverb déjà (already). For verbs formed with être in the passé composé, use the imparfait of être. It would equate to “had happened” in English.įor verbs conjugated avoir (to have) in the passé composé, it’s formed by combining avoir in the imparfait with the past participle. Remember that the past participle must agree in number and gender with a preceding direct‐object noun or pronoun. Its English equivalent is “had” + past participle. The plus‐que‐parfait is the compound form of the imperfect and is formed by using the imperfect of the appropriate helping verb ( avoir or être) + the past participle of the verb. The plus‐que‐parfait (the pluperfect) indicates that an action had taken place and had been completed before another past action took place. It is used in the sense of “each other” for these verbs. This is because the reflexive pronoun is an indirect object. The participe passé does not agree with the subject of the following verbs: se téléphoner, se parler, se mentir, se plaire (complaire/déplaire), se sourire, se rire, se nuire, se succéder, se suffire, se ressembler, s’en vouloir. Remember: the participe passé never agrees with an indirect object. In this case, the past participle does not agree. The exception is when the direct object comes after the reflexive verb. In the case of reflexive verbs (which always take être as their auxiliary in the passé composé), the participle generally agrees with the subject. This direct object can take three possible forms: a personal pronoun (me, te, le, la, nous, vous, les), the relative pronoun que, or a noun placed before the verb (usually in questions and exclamations). When a verb takes être as an auxiliary, the participle agrees in gender and number with the subject.įor verbs that take avoir in the passé composé, the participle only agrees in gender and number with a direct object that comes before the verb. ![]() This agreement is necessary in the following situations: In this case, the meaning of the verb often changes.įor some verbs, the participe passé has to agree in gender and number with either the subject or the object of the sentence. Note: we use avoir when descendre, (r)entrer, (re)monter, retourner and sortir are followed by a direct object. ![]() With the following verbs of movement: naître/mourir, aller/venir, monter/descendre, arriver/partir, entrer/sortir, apparaître, rester, retourner, tomber and their related forms such as: revenir, rentrer, remonter, redescendre, repartir. Most verbs construct the passé composé with avoir, however être is used as the auxiliary verb in the following cases: If the infinitive ends in -re, the participle ends in u If the infinitive ends in -ir, the participle ends in i If the infinitive ends in -er, the participle ends in é The present perfect (j’ai fait, I have done)įor regular er/ir/re-verbs, the past participle is formed as follows: This tense places the emphasis on the result or consequences of the action. We use the passé composé to talk about one-time, completed actions that took place in the past. The passé composé is used to describe actions that occurred in the past. The passé composé is a compound tense formed with the present tense of the auxiliary (avoir or être) and the past participle. ![]()
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