writing verbs in past tense, Le Passe compose
Some pastparticiple of avoir are also irregular verbs
*Look for the verbs that also use avoir irregular verbs*
Le passe compose
--Changes verbs to their past form --Uses helping verbs and past participle in order to make up a passe compose
etre conjugation
--It is an irregular verb --Helping verb of movement(words that are directions or directive) and reflective(sentences made with these verbs are talking about the subject pronoun/the subject itself) --It's conjugations are as follows: je suis Tu es il/elle/ont: est Nous sommes vous etes ils/elles: sont
Logic
--So we have regular verbs and irregular verbs --Regular verbs follow a pattern and they are 3 types, IR, ER and RE Irregular verbs don't follow a pattern they do their won thing --So conjugation is basically the different types of subject like: Je, Tu, il, elle, on, ils, elles, nous, vous --These are stuff like I, you, he, she stuff like that and they are called subjects. So verbs can change when you use different subjects before you use the verbs. And that's conjugation changing the way the verb looks for the subject. And we already did conjugation before. --Now we are doing passe compose(past tense). So when we want change a verb to past tense , even though it had a subject before it what happens is that you change that verb to normal its normal form and then add a helping verb(auxilary verbs) In english for example: --I have eaten: I is subject je, have is helping verb and eaten is the past participle --So in french the helping verbs we use are Avoir and etre. The way the past participle is written depends on the type of auxilary verb you use. --With Avoir the kind of verb(Er,IR, or Re) would not change its past participle form, even if the subject pronoun was for male or female gender. --With Etre the kind of verb(Er,IR, or Re) can change, if the subject pronoun was either male or female, or males or females, it has different forms for the past participle verb --But the avoir and etre also have to follow conjugation rules for the subject pronoun. So when we put the helping verbs they come after the subject so we conjugate the helping verbs but these are irregular, but we know its conjugations. We only know avoir for now.
What is a reflexive verb
A reflexive verb is a verb that is before/accompanied by a reflexive pronoun. what this means is that the pronoun is the same thing as the subject and the verb used in the sentence is then called a reflexive verb. EX: I cleaned myself. --this talks about me. the pronoun following the verb is the same person/thing as the subject. So a reflexive verb is just a verb that is used when the sentence is talking about an action that is done to the subject/person. So basically a reflexive verb is a verb that is used in a sentence to talk about an action done to the subject/the person doing the action
Irregular verbs such as avoir and etre past participle form
Avoir Past participle form: au Etre Past participle form: ete --And the other irregular verbs past participle form, I have taken previous notes on before. They are movement verbs and reflective verbs
Avoir conjugations
Avoir: means to have --It is an irregular verb --Very used for helping verbs --It's conjugations are as follows: J'ai, --i have Tu as, -- you have Il a, Elle a, --he has or she has On(we) a, -- we have Nous avons, Vous avez, Ils ont, Elles ont And avoir(to have) is not a regular verb Remember regular verbs follow a pattern on how to use them with different subjects like Je or elle. Irregular verbs don't they follow their own path and this is an irregular verb
Etre and past participle form relationship to align with subject pronouns gender
Etre --A helping verb for the movement verbs and reflective verbs And whats interesting is that Etre when being used as a helping verb makes the pastparticple form verb align with the gender of the subject pronoun EX: Je suis reste --I am stayed(remember past tense) So if the I was for male then it will leave it as its past participle form, if it was female it will add and extra e(looks like this: restee). And if it was singular no *S* if it was plural then add *S*
How to make passé composé
Formula for passe compose: Subject pronoun + Auxilary verb(helping verbs) + Past participle
How to say didn't
If you wanted to say i did not do this then you add (n') infront of your helping verb and pas infront of you past participle EX: J'ai joue foot -I played soccer Je n'ai pas joue foot - I didn't play soccer
Remember
In english and french you can't conjugate the subject pronoun in a passe compose you only conjugate the helping verb and just give the past participle form of a verb
French and english past tense
In french if you wanted to make the sentence Je mange --which means i am eating or i eat, if we wanted to change it to past tense or form a passe compose then --we add helping verbs, conjugate the helping verb and then we get the past participle form of the former verb J'ai mange--i have eaten And in english yes we could also turn i am eating to I have eaten(The have is the helping verb, and eaten is past participle) but we also have other ways like I ate and stuff like that, whereas in french we only have one way of writing the verbs or sentence in past tense and that is always with a helping verb
Past participles form for Er, Ir, Re regular verbs
for Er verbs that are regular verbs like manger. All we do is remove the r and spell the e with and accent Er manger(to eat) to mange -- from its normal form manger to mange when its in past participle mange e spelt with accent Ir Finir(Finish) to Fini--From normal for Finir to past participle form fini Re Attendre(Attend) to Attendu -- from its normal for attendre to past participle form Attendu