Amity Business School, Raipur,

Chhattisgarh

Présentation sur
Le passé composé avec
avoir
Numéro d’inscription : Présenté par
A80304620008 Gomati Verma
Sec A, sem 3
 What is it
What is it??
The passé composé is a past tense in French. It
is a compound tense, which means it is made up
of two verbs. You need an auxiliary (helping)
verb in the present tense and the participe passé
(past participle) of the main verb. For most
verbs, the auxiliary verb is avoir.
REVIEW CONJUGATION of AVOIR

• J’ai
• Tu as
• Il/Elle/on a
• Nous avons
• Vous avez
• Elles/Ils ont
To form the
participe passé
Drop the last two letters of the infinitive and add…
-er >é -ir >i -re >u
parler finir vendre
parlé fini vendu
Conjugation of parler in
the passé composé

avoir participe passé

• j’ai parlé
• tu as parlé
• il, elle, on a parlé
• nous avons parlé
• Vous avez parlé
• ils, elles ont parlé
 Translations (3 ways)

J’ai parlé. = I spoke.

I did speak.
I have spoken. Elle a
attendu. = ?
 Negation
Negative words go around the auxiliary verb.
Il n’a pas joué.
He didn’t play./He hasn’t played.
Tu n’as pas fini.
You didn’t finish./You haven’t finished
 Questions
Questions

Est-ce que:
Est-ce qu’il a joué?
Did he play?
Quand est-ce que tu as fini?
When did you finish?
 Inversion:
Inversion: (invert(invert
auxiliaryauxiliary
verb and
verb
subject, and
add -) subject, add -)

1.Quand as-tu fini

When did you finish?
2. A-t-il* joué?
Did he play?
* Add –t- when inverting il/elle/on
form of avoir.
 Remember…

1. The passé composé has TWO verbs: auxiliary

(helping) verb (avoir) and participe passé.
2. The participe passé always comes after the
auxiliary verb.