randomkasce.blogg.se - French plus que parfait practice

If the infinitive ends in -er, the participle ends in é Example: aim er – aim é.

Example: À quelle heure étais -tu sorti ce matin-là ? What time had you left that morning? no direct object, sortir = leave but: Avais-tu sorti les carottes du frigo hier soir ? Had you taken the carrots out of the fridge yesterday evening? direct object: les carottes, sortir = take out Participe passé: the past participleįor the regular - er/- ir/-re verbs, the participe passé is easy to construct: In this case, the meaning of the verb often changes. We use avoir when descendre, (r)entrer, (re)monter, retourner and sortir are followed by a direct object. I had gone to Brittany on holiday.Ĭheck out our page on avoir/être to pick up some tips on remembering which verbs take être as their auxiliary in the compound tenses.

with the following verbs of movement and their related forms: naître/mourir to be born/to die, aller/venir to go/to come, monter/descendre to go up/to go down, arriver/partir to arrive/to leave, entrer/sortir to enter/to go out, apparaître to appear, rester to stay, retourner to return, tomber to fall and their related forms such as: revenir to come back, rentrer to go back in, remonter to go back up, redescendre to go back down, repartir to leave again.Įxample: J’ étais parti(e) en vacances en Bretagne.

with reflexive verbs Example: Je m’étais trompé(e) dans mon calcul.

Most verbs construct the plus-que-parfait using avoir, however être is used as the auxiliary verb in the following cases: Example: Je ne m’étais pas trompé dans mon calcul.

I had left.→ I had not left.įor reflexive verbs, the reflexive pronoun comes after the first part of the negation (ne) and before the auxiliary verb (avoir/être). Il avait beaucoup voyagé à l'étranger et s'était rarement reposé.In negative sentences, the past participle comes after the second part of the negation (pas). In a story : Mon grand-père était très fatigué. → basically, it's like the English "had + verb" (he WAS tired (in the past) but BEFORE this past moment, he had travelled and had never rester) Il avait beaucoup voyagé à l'étranger et s'était rarement reposé. I.e : Quand j'étais petit, j'ai voyagé en Allemagne. Plus-que-parfait : to express the past compared to a past event.

→ roughly, but not completely, comparable to "have/has + verb" (i.e "have been.) (now you have them, it has a link to the present)

(the sense is roughly the same as above, but here, the action and experience of living there is more importance that the state of having been there) I.e : Quand j'étais jeune, j'ai habité trois ans à Lyon. It the past tense we use the more commonly, especially while speaking. It can also be used for something you have just done that has a link to the present, or simply something you did in a recent past. Here the emphasis is not so much put on describing, but rather on talking about an experience. Passé composé : to speak, in the present, of an action you have done in the future. → quite similar to "was/were + -ing" (description) but also used for "I would + verb" or "I used to + vb" (old habit that lasted) (an action that lasted)Īvant, je faisais du karaté tous les samedi. I.e : Quand j'étais jeune, j'habitais à Lyon. In primary school, French pupils are taught that it is the "temps de la description". Imparfait : to describe a past action that lasted over time or a repetitive action in the past.