The Perfect Tense is used to describe completed actions and events in the past. In English, the perfect tense can be translated in different ways; J’ai.

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2 The Perfect Tense is used to describe completed actions and events in the past. In English, the perfect tense can be translated in different ways; J’ai fini – I have finished I finished I did finish The perfect is often referred to as le passé composé. This is because it is made up of 3 parts; the subject + either avoir or être (auxiliary verb) + the past participle. For the majority of verbs, the auxiliary verb is avoir. The past participle of the regular verbs is based on the infinitive; er – é ir – i re - u

3 avoir = euêtre = étéfaire = fait boire = buconduire = conduitconnaître = connu courir = courucroire = crudevoir = dû dire = ditdormir = dormiécrire = écrit falloir = fallulire = lumettre = mis ouvrir = ouvertpleuvoir = pluprendre = pris comprendre = compris apprendre = appris pouvoir = purecevoir = reçurire = ri savoir = sutenir = tenuvivre = vécu voir = vuvouloir = voulusuivre = suivi Avoir J’Ai Tu As Il/Elle A Nous Avons Vous Avez Ils/Elles Ont

4 Etre; Je suis Tu es Il/Elle est Nous sommes Vous êtes Ils/Elles sont aller = allévenir = venu entrer = entrésortir = sorti arriver = arrivépartir = parti descendre = descendumonter = monté naître = némourir = mort rester = resté tomber = tombé retourner = retourné rentrer = rentré revenir = revenu

5 Means; I have woken up – using have/has And in the simple past; I woke up Form it using reflexive pronoun + être + past part Jemesuisréveillé (E) Tut’esreposé (E) Ils’estarrêté Elles’estlevée Nousnoussommescaché (E) (S) Vousvousêteslavé (E) (S) IlssesonttrompéS EllessesontdépêchéES Reflexive verbs take ETRE as their auxiliary verbs and therefore the endings must agree so we add an extra E for female and S for plurals

6 Here is the link for the Royal Grammar School of High Wycombe, and there are activities for the perfect tense on here; http://www.languagesonline.org.uk/