Comment former le passé composé ?
How to form the French passé composé?
Le passé composé est l’un des temps du passé les plus utilisés en français.
Ce temps est un temps composé. Cela signifie que vous avez besoin de deux verbes pour le conjuguer.
Vous avez d’abord besoin d’un verbe auxiliaire, AVOIR ou ÊTRE, que vous conjuguez au présent.
Ensuite, vous aurez besoin du participe passé du verbe que vous voulez conjuguer au passé composé.
The passé composé is one of the most widely used French past tenses.
This tense is a compound tense. It means that you need two verbs to conjugate it.
You will first need an auxiliary verb, either AVOIR or ÊTRE, that you conjugate in present tense.
Then you will need the past participle of the verb you want to conjugate in passé composé.
Par exemple :
- J’ai parlé (I spoke)
- Je suis allé (I went)
Comment former le participe passé ?
Les participes passés réguliers se terminent par -É, -I, -U :
- Pour les verbes réguliers en -ER, enlevez -ER de l’infinitif et remplacez-le par -É :
- parler → parlé
- Pour les verbes réguliers en -IR, enlevez -IR de l’infinitif et remplacez-le par -I :
- finir → fini
- Pour les verbes réguliers en -RE, enlevez -RE de l’infinitif et remplacez-le par -U :
- vendre → vendu
How to form the past participle?
In English, most past participles end with -ED (arrived).
In French, they mostly end with -É, -I, -U:
- For all regular -ER verbs, remove the -ER from the infinitive and replace it with -É:
- parler → parlé
- For all regular -IR verbs, remove the -IR from the infinitive and replace it with -I:
- finir → fini
- For all regular -RE verbs, remove the -RE from the infinitive and replace it with -U:
- vendre → vendu
- For all regular -ER verbs, remove the -ER from the infinitive and replace it with -É:
Participes passés irréguliers
Ensuite, vous avez tous les verbes irréguliers qui ne suivent aucun modèle et que vous devez apprendre par cœur 😉
Voici quelques verbes très utiles à connaître :
Then you have all the irregular verbs that don’t follow any pattern and that you have to learn by heart 😉
Here are some very useful verbs to know:
- être → été (to be)
- avoir → eu (to have)
- faire → fait (to do, make)
- pouvoir → pu (can, to be able)
- vouloir → voulu (to want)
You might be interested in my learning pack “Passé composé and Imparfait” with a 45 min video and an ebook explaining how to use these 2 past tenses. See link below.
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33 Comments
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One little comment would be to change the line that says that passé-composé is the english present perfect, as if it is true that both tenses look very similar, they are actually not equivalent. Passé-composé is usually referred to as the “perfect” tense in French methods and corresponds to the simple past (or preterit) in English.
Thanks!
Hi Yann and thank you for your nice words. I totally agree with you regarding the present perfect. I mentioned it to put in parallel the fact that both tenses are built with an auxiliary verb and past participle. But even though both tenses are built the same way, they are not used the same way and that can be confusing. I therefore removed it from my article 😉
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Thank you for your lovely and helpful blog.
I have a question about using v. Avoir and v. Être.
How do you you know when to use v. Avoir or v. Être when you conjugate in passe composé?
You’re welcome 🙂
You can have a look at my infographic called “la maison d’être” that you can find by using the search bar.
If you want to know everything you need to know about the passé composé and imparfait you can have a look at my learning pack here. 😉
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