The passé composé of –er verbs with avoir

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1 The passé composé of –er verbs with avoir
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2 Le passé Composé To tell what happened in the past in French, use a verb in the passé composé. The passé composé (compound past) has two parts: a helping verb (avoir) and a past participle. You form the past participle of regular –er verbs by replacing –er with –é. j’ai cherché nous avons cherché tu as cherché vous avez cherché il/elle a cherché ils/elles ont cherché

3 Le passé composé The passé composé is the equivalent of these three ways to express the past tense in English. J’ai cherché I looked for. I did look for. I have looked for. To say what didn’t happen, place ne...pas around the conjugated form of the helping verb avoir. Je n’ai pas cherché I didn’t look for. I have not looked for.

4 Irregular past participles
These verbs will also use avoir as the helping verb in the passé composé, but they have irregular past participles. Memorize them!!!!! être →été (was/were) avoir →eu (had) vouloir →voulu (wanted) boire →bu (drank) lire →lu (read)

5 More irregular past participles
voir →vu (saw) mettre →mis (wore; put; placed) prendre →pris (took; had food/drink) faire →fait (made/did) pleuvoir →plu (rained)

6 Adverbs with the passé composé
Here are some common adverbial expressions used when talking about the past. They can be placed at the beginning or at the end of a sentence. hier matin/hier après-midi/hier soir: yesterday... lundi dernier: last Monday la semaine dernière: last week le mois dernier: last month l’année dernière: last year