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More help for conjugating verbs with être in the passé composé 

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More help for conjugating verbs with être in the passé composé 

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http://www.frenchlearner.com/ - Learn how to conjugate French verbs in the past tense which use Être as an auxiliary verb. These verbs include passer (to pass), rester (to stay), aller (to go), venir (to come) and many more. Visit for my site for further explanations and example sentences.

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More help for conjugating verbs with avoir in the passé composé 

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More help for conjugating verbs with avoir in the passé composé 

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conjugate a verb using passe compose.avi

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How to conjugate a French verb in the Passe Compose.

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Read a story in the passé composé Read the following story. Pay attention to the passé composé! Did you understand most of it?

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Read a story in the passé composé Read the following story. Pay attention to the passé composé! Did you understand most of it?

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Une chanson A song about the passé composé with the helping verb être. Some of these verbs are irregular, but you can see how the conjugation works!

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Une chanson A song about the passé composé with the helping verb être. Some of these verbs are irregular, but you can see how the conjugation works!

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FLE - Le rap du passé composé avec Être - Nathalie Maguérès

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Une chanson A song about the passé composé with helping verb avoir, to help you remember. 

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Une chanson A song about the passé composé with helping verb avoir, to help you remember. 

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Key Phrases to Use with the passé composé 

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Key Phrases to Use with the passé composé 

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1. le mois dernier=last month
2. La semaine dernière=last week
3. un  jour=one day
4. plusieurs fois=several times
5. lundi, mardi=on Monday, on Tuesday

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Most verbs take avoir as their helping verb in the past tense, but a few take être. These are mostly verbs of motion. If the helping verb is être, the past participle agrees with the subject in number and gender.
Take a look at the examples below. Again, only pay attention to the regular verbs, for right now!

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There are several past tenses in French, and each is used in very specific situations. The passé composé is the most common past tense; it is used to relate actions or events completed in the past. The passé composé may be translated into English in three different ways depending on the context.

Tex went to the Alamo.

Tex est allé à l'Alamo.

Tex has gone to the Alamo.

Tex did go to the Alamo.

formation
The passé composé consists of two parts, the present tense of an auxiliary, or helping verb (either avoir or être ), and a past participle. In most instances the auxiliary verb used is avoir.

passé composé = present tense of auxiliary + past participle

However, several intransitive verbs, like aller (to go), require the auxiliary être instead. Note that the past participle agrees with the subject in number and in gender.

aller 'to go'

je suis allé(e), I went (have gone)

nous sommes allé(e)s, we went (have gone)

tu es allé(e), you went (have gone)

vous êtes allé(e)(s), you went (have gone)

il / on est allé, he / one went (has gone)

ils sont allés, they went, (have gone)

elle est allée, she went (has gone)

elles sont allées, they went, (have gone)

The negation is formed by placing ne&nbsp ... pas around the conjugated verb, which in this case, is the auxiliary être: Je ne suis pas allé(e), Tu n'es pas allé(e), etc.

the Alamo of être
Many intransitive verbs, that is, verbs not followed by a direct object, take être in the passé composé. Many of these verbs also indicate motion. They are verbs of coming and going. Even naître (to be born) and mourir (to die) can be thought of as coming and going in metaphorical terms. The Alamo d'Être illustrates this group of verbs.

A few of these verbs of movement ( monter, descendre, sortir, passer, retourner) may sometimes take a direct object, thus becoming transitive. When they do, the auxiliary used is avoir, instead of être. Example:

Tex est sorti.

Tex went out.

Tex n'a pas sorti la poubelle.

Tex did not take out the garbage.

It is important to note that many intransitive verbs of movement, like courir and marcher, do not use être but avoir. The pronominal verbs form another important group of verbs which use être as the auxiliary in the passé composé.

irregular past participles
The past participles of the verbs that use être as an auxiliary are regular except for the following:

infinitive translation past participle

venir

to come

venu

devenir

to become

devenu

revenir

to come back

revenu

naître

to be born

né

mourir

to die

mort

agreement of the past participle
The past participle of a verb which takes être agrees in gender and number with the subject; that means an -e is added to the past participle to agree with a feminine subject and an -s is added for a plural subject. If the subject is feminine plural, -es is added.

Joe-Bob: Tex, Corey et toi, vous êtes rentrés de l'Alamo?

Joe-Bob: Tex, did you and Corey come back from the Alamo?

Tex: Oui. Mais Tammy et Bette sont restées à San Antonio pour faire des achats.

Tex: Yes. But Tammy and Bette stayed in San Antonio to go shopping.

Corey: Tu n'as pas entendu? Tout d'un coup Tammy est devenue toute pâle et elle est tombée dans la rivière!

Corey: Didn't you hear? All of a sudden Tammy turned very pale and she fell in the river!

Joe-Bob: Mais, qu'est-ce qui s'est passé?

Joe-Bob: But, what happened?

Corey: Calme-toi. Elle n'est pas morte! Tex et moi sommes arrivés pour la sauver!

Corey: Calm down. She didn't die! Tex and I arrived to save her!

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The passé composé is used to talk about completed events in the past tense. This tense needs a helping verb (avoir or être)

Look at the following attachment to see how to conjugate verbs in the passé composé with the helping verb avoir.  Pay attention only to the regular verbs, for right now!

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The passé composé is the most commonly used tense to refer to actions completed in the past. The passé composé may be translated into English in three different ways depending on the context.

Tex ate all the meat!

Tex a mangé toute la viande!

Tex has eaten all the meat!

Tex did eat all the meat!

formation
This tense is called the passé composé because it is composed of two elements: the present tense of an auxiliary verb (either avoir or être), followed by a past participle:

passé composé = present tense of auxiliary + past participle

Note that in most instances the auxiliary verb is avoir, but some verbs require être as the auxiliary.

For regular verbs with an infinitive ending in-er , the past participle is formed by replacing the final -er of the infinitive with -é. Listen carefully to the pronunciation of the passé composé of the verb 'parler'. The past participle (parlé) is pronounced the same as the infinitive (parler), even though they are spelled differently.

The past participle of regular verbs with an infinitive ending in-ir is formed by dropping the final -r from the infinitive. For example, the past participle of finir is fini.

The past participle of regular verbs with an infinitive ending in-re is formed by replacing the final -re of the infinitive with -u. For example, the past participle of perdre is perdu.

Note that many verbs, however, have irregular past participles. The past participles of many common irregular verbs which have avoir as an auxiliary are listed below.

infinitive translation past participle

negation
Negation of the passé composé is formed by placing ne ... pas around the conjugated verb, which, in this case, is the auxiliary avoir.

Oh, regardez! Tex a mangé toute la viande! Tammy, au contraire, n'a pas mangé de viande! Elle est végétarienne, comme la plupart des tatous.

Oh, look! Tex ate all the meat! Tammy, on the other hand, did not eat any meat! She is a vegetarian, like most armadillos.

Listen to the following dialogue:

Joe-Bob arrive chez Tammy. Il meurt de faim. Mais il est trop tard.

Joe-Bob arrives at Tammy's house. He is dying of hunger. But it is too late.

Joe-Bob: Tammy, j'ai perdu ma collection de noix. Est-ce que je peux dîner avec vous?

Joe-Bob: Tammy, I lost my nut collection. Can I have dinner with y'all?

Tammy: Je suis désolée, Joe-Bob. Tex a fini toute la viande. A mon avis, il a trop mangé.

Tammy: I am sorry Joe-Bob. Tex finished all the meat. In my opinion, he ate too much.

Joe-Bob: Ce n'est pas grave Tammy. Je peux trouver quelque chose dans la cuisine ... Mon dieu, Tammy! Est-ce que tu as vu? Tex a dégobillé partout. C'est dégueulasse!

Joe-Bob: It's okay Tammy. I can find something in the kitchen ... My god, Tammy! Have you seen? Tex threw up everywhere. It's disgusting!

Tammy: Ça ne m'étonne pas. Ce petit tatou carnivore, il n'est pas aussi évolué que moi!

Tammy: That doesn't surprise me. That little carnivorous armadillo. He is not as enlightened as I am!

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Tex's French Grammar is the integral grammar component of Français Interactif, an online French course from the University of Texas at Austin. Français Interactif includes authentic, spoken French language via digital audio and video clips, a French grammar reference (Tex's French Grammar), self-correcting French grammar exercises, vocabulary and phonetics sections, Internet-based activities, comparative cultural polling, and an electronic workbook.