Une écrivaine francophone: perfect tense verbs like ouvrir, écrire & traduire.
I can write in the perfect tense, using a range of verbs with avoir and être and with different types of past participle, to describe the past life and writings of a Francophone writer.
Une écrivaine francophone: perfect tense verbs like ouvrir, écrire & traduire.
I can write in the perfect tense, using a range of verbs with avoir and être and with different types of past participle, to describe the past life and writings of a Francophone writer.
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Key learning points
- The past participles of verbs like ouvrir become ouvert e.g. je découvre in the perfect tense becomes j'ai découvert.
- The past participles of verbs like traduire become traduit e.g. tu détruis in the perfect tense becomes tu as détruit.
- The past participles of verbs like écrire become écrit e.g. elle décrit becomes in the perfect tense elle a décrit.
- Past participles used with être must agree in gender and number with the subject of the verb.
Keywords
Auxiliary verb - a form of ‘avoir’ or ‘être’ used to form the perfect tense
Past participle agreement - when the past participle matches the subject in gender and number
Common misconception
Only irregular verbs such as 'faire' and 'avoir' have unusual past participles.
Verbs like 'ouvrir', 'traduire' and 'écrire' form their past participles differently to regular IR and RE verbs and should be seen as different types of verb when learning verb patterns.
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Starter quiz
6 Questions
est allée à la bibliothèque.
a visité la Tour Eiffel.
avons fait le tour du musée.
êtes venues hier.
sont descendus la rue.
ont regardé un match de foot.
suis
suis
suit
suivons
suivez
suivent
Exit quiz
6 Questions
noun
adjective
infinitive
past participle
adverb
preposition
to treat, handle, to deal with
to die, dying
to write down, writing down
to destroy, destroying
to admit, to confess
to surprise, surprising