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Passé composé - French Compound Past Tense

The passé composé is a compound conjugation, which means it has two parts:
  1. present tense of the auxiliary verb (either avoir or être)
     
  2. past participle of the main verb

Note: Like all compound conjugations, the passé composé may be subject to grammatical agreement:
  • When the auxiliary verb is être, the past participle must agree with the subject
     
  • When the auxiliary verb is avoir, the past participle may have to agree with its direct object





    French passé composé conjugations
      
    AIMER (auxiliary verb is avoir)
    j'ai aimé nousavons aimé
    tuas aimévousavez aimé
    il,
    elle 
    a aiméils,
    elles 
    ont aimé
      
    DEVENIR (être verb)
    jesuis devenu(e) noussommes devenu(e)s
    tues devenu(e)vousêtes devenu(e)(s)
    ilest devenuilssont devenus
    elle est devenueellessont devenues
      
    SE LAVER (pronominal verb)
    jeme suis lavé(e) nousnous sommes lavé(e)s
    tut'es lavé(e)vousvous êtes lavé(e)(s)
    ils'est lavéilsse sont lavés
    elle s'est lavéeellesse sont lavées

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