Passe Compose

Passé Composé

(= came, saw, worked…) it expresses an event in the past that has been completed. It answers the question what happened? it is composed of an auxillary verb in the present and a past participle. The auxillary verb mostly used is Avoir with a few exceptions that use être. (DR MRS P VANDERTRAMP) the form of a past participle of a given verb depends on which verb group it belongs to:

-er | Parler-> | parlé |

-ir | Dormer -> | Dormi |

| Finir -> | Finir |

-re | Vendre -> | vendu |

* but many verbs have an irregular past participle (boire-> bu, prendre-> pris)

Avoir (to have) | Être (to be) |

J’ai | Nous avons | Je suis | Nous sommes |

Tu as | Vous avez | Tu es | Vous êtes |

Il a | Ils ont | Il est | Ils sont |

D- devenir( to become)

R- revenit (to return)

M- monter (to go up)

R- rentrer (to go/ come back)

S- sortir (to go out)

P- partir (to leave)

V- venir (to come)

A- aller (to go)

N- naître (to be born)

D- descndre (to go down)

E- entrer (to go/come in)

R- retourner (to go back)

T- tomber (to fall)

R- rester (to stay)

A- arriver (to arrive)

M- mourir (to die)

P- passer (to go/come by)

Imparfait

(= basically ‘ing’) Past tense verb used to say what you used to do on a habitual basis. It can also be used to indicate time, age, describe weather, express feelings, describe people and places. It is composed of a stem derived from the present tense “Nous” form of that verb then followed by the imparfait ending (which is the same for all verbs)

-ais | -ions |

-ais | -iez |

-ait | -aient |

verbs that are more often imparfati : avoir, devoir, être, penser, pouvoir, vouloir

Pronoms

A subject pronoun can be used in place of a noun as the subject of a sentence and appears with a verb. On is an indefinite pronoun that can mean one, they, or people. It always takes the singular form est. A stressed pronoun is used after c’est and ce sont, and when there are 2 subjects in a sentence, one of which is...