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The perfect tense with avoir

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Learn when we use the perfect tense and how to form it with avoir.

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the auxiliary – the present tense of avoir

the past participle.

The perfect tense of -er verbs 1

The perfect tense is used to talk about completed actions in the past. The perfect tense has two parts:

La souris a mangé le fromage.

To form the past participle of regular -er verbs, remove the -er and add -é:

auxiliary past participle

manger mangé

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The perfect tense of -er verbs 2