passé composé = past tense - florida virtual...
Post on 22-Feb-2018
232 Views
Preview:
TRANSCRIPT
Passé Composé = Past Tense
• Use it to talk about completed actions in the past.Ex: Hier, j’ai regardé la télé. (Yesterday, I watched TV. )
Ex: Elles sont allées à la plage. (April & Kim went to the beach. )
• Things that have ALREADY occurred
**done, handled, over with, completed, finished
2 Parts
Helping verb Past Participle present tense of avoir or être mangé, allé, fini, etc…
» J’ai mangé la pizza.» Je suis allé au parc.
1 2
Passé Composé with Avoir• If avoir is the 1st part (helping verb), you
should first conjugate avoir like normal (in present)
…
J’ai nous avons tu as vous avez
il a ils ont
• Now on to part 2
2nd part = past participle
• Here is the formula for most past participles:er = é re = u ir = I
manger = mangé perdre = perdu finir = fini
There are some weird ones too…
Common Irregular Past Participles
faire = fait être = été avoir = eu
prendre = pris mettre = mis
…there are just a handful more…you will recognize them…
Now Put the 2 Parts together
• J’ai fait le devoir.• Nous avons regardé la télé.• Elles ont fini le livre.• Vous avez nagé avec les dauphins.
Woohoo! You’re writing in the past tense!
Passé composé with “être” means:
Instead of: J’ai nous avons avoir tu as vous avez(for the first part) il a ils ont
You use: je suis nous sommes être tu es vous êtes(for the first part) il est ils sont
You still need 2 parts…
• This time être is the 1st part…
• Je suis allé au parc.
• Vous êtes venus au cinéma.
2
Things to remember with “être”
• Avoir hogs most of the French verbs in the passé composé (it goes with hundreds & hundreds of them)
• Etre goes with only 16 of them…
Avoir =(Please know this is a jokecochon is the word for pig.)
DR. & MRS. VANDERTRAMP(these 16 all go with être)
• Descendre (to go down)• Revenir (to come back)• Monter (to go up)• Rentrer (to come in again)• Sortir (to go out/exit)• Venir (to come)• Aller (to go)• Naître (to come into this world/be born)• Devenir (to become)• Entrer (to come in/enter)• Rester (to stay *this one is weird* once you “come in” you
stay?)• Tomber (to fall/ when you fall you “go” down)• Retourner (to return/come back)• Arriver (to arrive/ to come)• Mourir (to die/to “go” out)• Partir (to leave/to go)
Remember this too: • The 16 exceptional verbs can be categorized as
verbs of “coming & going”(look at them again, they all have something to do with coming or going somewhere)
• These 16 verbs must agree in gender & number in the past tense…(*feminine & plural)
* use them like adjectives (make them agree/match the subject) ex: allé, allée, allés, or allées
• See next slide for examples…
With être Make the 2nd part (Past Participle) *Agree/Match*
• A feminine subject gets an extra “e” ex: Marie est allée. Je (Mme L) suis allée.
• More than one person gets an “s” ex: Ils sont allés. Nous sommes allés.
• More than one *feminine* person gets both ex: Marie et Lisa sont allées.
VS
Irregular past participles used with être…
Remember these are the 2nd part
• Venir = venu• Revenir = revenu (…they’re weird)
• Devenir = devenu• Mourir = mort• Naître = néex: Elles sont revenues!
They don’t follow the normal pattern…
top related