Welcome! This deck will teach you the difference between two of the most important past tenses in French: the perfect tense, known as the 'passé composé', and the imperfect tense, known as the 'imparfait'. Understanding when to use each one is essential for telling stories and describing past events accurately.

First, let's look at the perfect tense, or 'passé composé'. Its main job is to talk about specific, completed actions in the past. Think of these as the main events of a story, the things that happened and are now finished. For example, 'Hier, j'ai visité le musée' means 'Yesterday, I visited the museum'. The visit is a single, completed event.