#cristiano2501

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eternal karma
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if you need to stress the fact that you walked to school, then i think the best way is "je suis allé à l'école à pied", "j'ai marché à l'école" is a correct sentence i think (@natives correct me if i'm wrong) but it doesn't sound very natural to convey what you mean

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oh i just noticed that you said "i walk to school" is "j'ai marché à l'école", if you mean to express that habit it's just "je marche à l'école"

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either way, for the passé composé you use it to describe actions that had a clear beginning and end in the past, if you're just describing things in the past you use the imparfait: "j'ai vu de beaux paysages là-bas" ---> you went somewhere and you saw nice landscapes while you were there, clear beginning and end
"je voyais de beaux paysages" ---> this conveys more the meaning that in the past you lived somewhere and you regularly saw cool landscapes, so there's not a clear beginning and end

turbid swallow
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Another sentence that could be used, though it's more complicated, would be ''Je vais à l'école en marchant'' (mostly used for a habit).
The past form of this would be ''Je suis allé/e à l'école en marchant'' (I walked to school)..
Most people would use a time indicative in this sentence. Ex: Hier (yesterday), je suis allé/e à l'école en marchant. That wouldn't represent a habit, but an exception to your usual routine.
(I guess it depends on the context, as always)

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There's another possible sentence but imma leave this one to other natives, as I'm not sure if it would be okay to use it (depends on the context, again) : J'ai marché jusqu'à l'école.
According to me, it draws too much attention to the distance the person walked.. Not sure tho