Rules of PC
Past Participles
Irregular past Participles
Translate coming and going verbs
New Verbs
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How do you form the past participle of ER verbs: parler, travailler, diner aimer?
Change the ER to an ê: parlê, travaillê, dîner?
100
What is a past participle? Give an example
The past form of the verb (saw, heard, ran, etc.)
100
What is the Past participle of faire?
fait
100
She fell.
Elle est tombée
100
Comment dit-on went down?
descendu
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What does one of the helping verbs HAVE to be?
Avoir or être (I will accept just AVOIR)
200
How do you form the past participle of ER verbs?
take off the "er" and add an e with the accent mark (é). I will also accept, take off the "r" and add an accent mark over the "e" (é)
200
What is the Past participle of prendre?
pris
200
The boys went to school
Les garçons sont allés à l'école.
200
Comment dit-on was born?
300
Conjugate Être
Je suis Nous sommes Tu es Vous êtes Il/Elle est Ils/Elles sont
300
What is special about the passé composé using ALLER? TWO THINGS!!!
You use ETRE and you must match the ending of allé with who you are talking about
300
What is the Past participle of voir?
What is vu
300
Where did y'all go?
Où êtes-vous allés?
300
Comment dit-on became?
devenu
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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
400
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 or être)
400
What is the Past participle of lire
What is lu
400
They (fem.) returned when we (masc.) left.
Elles sont retournées quand nous sommes partis.
400
Comment dit-on went up?
monté
500
What extra step is there to form être PC?
Make the past participle agree with the subject in gender and number
500
Can you have more than 1 past participle?
NO
500
What is the Past participle of pouvoir?
What is pu
500
You went home; I stayed.
Tu es rentré(e); je suis resté(e)
500
Comment dit-on went out?
sorti