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French Passé Composé: Completed Past Events

Learn to form the French passé composé, the main past tense for spoken events. This deck covers using 'avoir' and 'être' as auxiliary verbs and forming common past participles.

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Lesson#1
Welcome to your A2 French course. By the end, you'll be able to handle everyday conversations, talk about your past, and describe your life in French with real confidence. With Auracle, you will rapidly build towards fluency by speaking constantly and being asked to actively recall words and sentences. Active recall is proven to be essential for language acquisition, and Auracle ensures you learn rapidly and forget nothing by reinforcing information at the exact moment you need to review. Let's get started!
Lesson#2
To talk about the past in French, you'll mainly use a tense called the passé composé. It's used for completed actions, especially in conversation, to say what you 'did' or 'have done'.
Lesson#3
The passé composé is a compound tense, meaning it has two parts. First, you use an auxiliary verb, which is either 'avoir' or 'être' in the present tense. Second, you add the past participle of the main verb.
Lesson#4
Most verbs in French use 'avoir' as their auxiliary verb in the passé composé. A smaller, specific group of verbs, mostly about movement or a change of state, use 'être'.
Quiz#5
Which auxiliary verb do most verbs use in the passé composé?

avoir

Lesson#6
Let's start with 'avoir'. To say 'I have eaten', you take 'j'ai', the present tense of 'avoir', and add the past participle 'mangé'. So, 'J'ai mangé'. We will now learn some of the most common irregular past participles.

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