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AQA GCSE French: The Perfect Tense (Passé Composé) with Avoir

Learn how to form the perfect tense with the auxiliary verb 'avoir' to talk about completed actions in the past. This includes forming the past participle for regular -er, -ir, and -re verbs, and key irregulars.

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Lesson#1
Welcome to this deck on the perfect tense in French, also known as the 'passé composé'. This is one of the main ways to talk about the past, specifically for actions that are completed. By the end of this deck, you'll be able to describe what you did yesterday, last week, or last year.
Lesson#2
To form the perfect tense, you usually need two parts: an auxiliary verb, which is a 'helping' verb, and a past participle. For most verbs in French, the auxiliary verb is 'avoir', which means 'to have'. So, the structure is: subject, followed by the correct part of 'avoir' in the present tense, followed by the past participle.
Quiz#3
What is the French perfect tense, or 'passé composé', used to describe?

completed past actions

Quiz#4
What are the two components that make up the perfect tense in French?

an auxiliary verb and a past participle

Quiz#5
For most verbs in French, which auxiliary verb is used to form the perfect tense?

avoir

Lesson#6
Let's start with regular verbs ending in 'er', like 'parler', to speak, or 'manger', to eat. To form their past participle, you remove the 'er' ending and add 'é'. So, 'parler' becomes 'parlé', and 'manger' becomes 'mangé'.

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