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Pronunciation, Definite Article (L1)
Pronunciation, Subject Pronouns, The Present Tense of Regular -ER Verbs (L2)
Pronunciation, The Verbs ÊTRE and AVOIR, the Plural of Nouns, Adjective Agreement (L3)
My Family, Basic Negative Structures, Cardinal Numbers 1-100 (L4)
Pronunciation, Asking Questions, Indefinite Article (L5)
Word List - Lessons 1-5
Take a Test (1)
Play Games
At the Bakery, Polite Forms of the Verb VOULOIR, the Verb ACHETER
(L6)
At the Bakery - Vocabulary, The Present Tense of -RE Verbs, Indirect Object Pronouns (L7)
Irregular Verbs - DEVOIR, Vocabulary and Grammar Exercises(L8)
At the Market (Dialogue), Using the Partitive Article (L9)
At the Market - Vocabulary, Using Partitive Article - Exercises (L10)
Preposition De in Negative Structures - Exercises (L11)
Using Pronoun EN, Exercises (L12)
Word List - Lessons 6-12
Virtual French Dialogues - At the Market
Flash Cards
Using the pronoun EN, Exercises (L12)
Going on Vacation (L13)
Going on Vacation - Vocabulary (L13)
Going on Vacation - Vocabulary Exercises (L14)
The Immediate Future and the Passé Composé (L14)
Asking for Directions - Dialogue (L15)
Asking for Directions -Vocabulary and Exercises (L15)
Directions - Interactive Games
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Learn French - the Immediate Future and the Passé Composé
The Immediate Future - ALLER + Infinitive
1. The Immediate Future is used to express future intentions or plans. It is formed using the verb ALLER followed by an infinitive. It often replaces the regular future tense in conversation and is almost always translated as "to be going to".
Nous allons faire un tour de Montréal à Québec. - We are going to make a trip from Montreal to Quebec.
The Passé Composé
2. The Passé Composé is commonly used to talk about situations in the past to express a completed action. It is formed with a conjugated form of AVOIR or ÊTRE. Most verb take avoir in the passé composé.
The past participle of regular -er verbs is formed by dropping the -er of the infinitive and adding an é ending.
marcher - march-er - marché
| to repair - RÉPARER |
I repaired
you repaired
he/she/one repaired
we repaired
you repaired
they repaired
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j'ai réparé
tu as réparé
il/elle/on a réparé
nous avons réparé
vous avez réparé
ils/elles ont réparé
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The passé composé is translated in two ways:
| 1. J'ai réparé ma voiture. |
1. I repaired my car.
2. I have repaired my car. |
Many past participles are irregular and need to be memorized:
| Infinitive | Past Participle | |
| avoir |
eu | to have |
| être | été | to be |
| lire | lu | to read |
| savoir | su | to know |
| faire | fait | to do |
| voir | vu | to see |
| boir | bu | to drink |
| dire | dit | to say |
| prendre | pris | to take |
Some verbs take être in the passé composé. Most of these verbs express movement or describe change. In this case, the past participle agrees in gender and number with the subject.
| to arrive - ARRIVER |
I arrived
you arrived
he arrived
she arrived
we arrived
you arrived
they arrived (masc. pl.)
they arrived (fem. pl.)
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je suis arrivé(e)
tu es arrivé(e)
il est arrivé
elle est arrivée
nous sommes arrivé(e)s
vous êtes arrivé(e)s
ils sont arrivés
elles sont arrivées
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The negative of the passé composé is formed by placing ne ... pas around the conjugated form of avoir or être.
Je n'ai pas parlé à M. Dupont. - I haven't talked to Mr. Dupont.
To ask a question in the passé composé, invert the subject and the conjugated form of avoir or être.
Avez-vous jamais voyagé à l'étranger? - Have you ever traveled abroad?
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