#need help in passe compose

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need help in passe compose

brisk hill
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What exactly do you struggle with? How to conjugate or when to use it, or something else?

lunar tide
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a lot

twin geyser
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passé composé is formed like this: personal pronoun(like je, tu, il, etc) then avoir/être at present tense, and then the verb written in passé compose form.
verbs that end with -er (like manger) are gonna take out the r and replace the e with é. so manger turns into mangé (J'ai mangé) . 2nd group (like finir) are gonna do the same thing but end with an i. so finir turns into fini (j'ai fini). now verbs that end with -re turn into u. so vendre would turn into vendu (j'ai vendu)

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to go back to the 2nd part, where you have to use avoir or être, 95 percent of the time its gonna be avoir

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the only ones that use être are: Devenir, Revenir, Monter, Retourner, Sortir, Venir, Aller, Naître, Descendre, Entrer, Rentrer, Tomber, Rester, Arriver, Mourir, Partir.

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there are some more that use être, but these are the main ones

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the main 2 past tenses that you'll use in french are the passé compose and the imparfait. passé compose is used when something happened and was completed in the past. for example: hier, j'ai fait mes devoirs( yesterday, i did my homework)

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imparfait is used for the something that happened repeatedly, like a habit. je jouais au foot quand j'étais enfant (i used to play soccer when i was a kid).
its also used when something was in progress at a certain point in the past. like "hier je regardais la télé" (yesterday i was watching T.V.

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and there are some exceptions like faire turns into fait (j'ai fait). être turns into été (J'ai été). avoir turns into eu (j'ai eu)