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Rules of PC
Past Participles
Irregular past Participles
French to English translation
English to French translation
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How do you form the past participle of ER verbs: parler, travailler, aimer?
Change the ER to an é: parlé, travaillé, aimé?
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What is a past participle? Give an example
The past form of the verb (saw, heard, ran, etc.)
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What is the Past participle of faire?
fait
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Qu'est-ce que tu as fait hier?
What did you do yesterday?
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I sang.
J'ai chanté.
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Which verb(s) is used as the helping verb or auxiliary?
Avoir or être (I will accept just AVOIR)
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How do you form the past participle of ER verbs?
take off the "er" and add an e with the accent mark (é).
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What is the Past participle of prendre?
pris
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Tu as mangé la baguette?
Did you eat the baguette?
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We talked yesterday.
Nous avons parlé hier.
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Conjugate avoir
J'ai Nous avons Tu as Vous avez Il/Elle a Ils/Elles ont
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How do you form the past participle of IR verbs?
Drop the "r" and end with "i" (ex: finir = fini)
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What is the Past participle of boire?
bu
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Ils ont fini leurs devoirs.
They finished their homework.
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She took a test.
Elle a passé un examen.
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The passé composé is a compound conjugation, which means it has two parts:
1. present tense of the auxiliary verb (either avoir or être) 2. past participle of the main verb
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In the negative, do the ne/n'... pas go around the past participle? If not, where do they go?
No, they go around the helping verb (form of avoir)
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What is the Past participle of avoir
eu
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Il a plu hier matin.
It rained yesterday morning.
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They played soccer Saturday evening.
Ils ont joué au foot samedi soir.
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In passé composé, what is the part of speech of the second verb?
Past participle
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How do you form the past participle of RE verbs?
Drop the "re" and add "u" ex: descendre = descendu
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What is the Past participle of être
été
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Elles ont beaucoup maigri!
They have lost a lot of weight!
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I won 40.000€ and I bought a new car.
J'ai gagné 40.000€ et j'ai acheté une nouvelle voiture.