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• To use the past tense, you must conjugate the auxiliary verb avoir and add a past participle.
Passé composé = AVOIR + Participe passé
J'ai mangé au restaurant hier. (I ate to the restaurant yesterday)Tu as fini ton dessert avant moi. (You finished you dessert before me)Elles ont chanté à la kermesse. (They sang at the fair)Passé composé = AVOIR + Participe passé
Note that the past participle doesn't change with the helping verb avoir.
○ Negation
○ Negation
Be careful ! Negation words surround the helping verb if it is conjugated.
Je n'ai pas chanté. (I didn't sing)But both negation words are before the verbs if the helping verb is l'infinitive.
Ne pas avoir chanté. (Not having sung)• Note: The ne disappears in spoken language.
J'ai pas regardé la télé hier soir. (I didn't watch TV yesterday evening)T'as pas vieilli d'une ride ! (You haven't aged a day!)○ When to use the passé composé ?
○ When to use the passé composé ?
• A past event
Tu m'as passé les clés de l'appart' hier soir. (You handed me the keys yesterday)• An action defined in time and over (≠ imparfait )
Il a tapé dans le ballon. (He kicked the ball.) → The action happens in a defined moment in the past.• When speaking or in the daily-life written language (≠ passé simple)
La Présidente a proposé une nouvelle loi. (Misses President proposed a new law.) → Even though the context is formal, passé composé is used as that is a daily-life, spoken declaration.○ In short, passé composé…
○ In short, passé composé…
• Is the tense of the defined instant and precise action in the past.
• It indicates a mentally-close action.
• This is the most used past tense in daily life.
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