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nimble hemlock
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vous avez boirez une cafe is roughtly like saying:
you have drinks an coffee

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do you know how to conjugate passé composé?

fallow mountain
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oh yes!

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i was hoping to say do u want to drink coffee? tho

fallow mountain
nimble hemlock
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indeed, so you need to have a noun or pronoun, a conjugated of an auxiliary in the present tense, and then the past participle

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let's ignore verbs that use être as an auxiliary for the moment

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How would you write "I ate", "you thought", and "we played"

fallow mountain
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dac! je suis mange, tu es saise et nous sommes joueons

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btw is dac=daccord

fallow mountain
nimble hemlock
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d'ac = d'accord, but informally

nimble hemlock
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Do you know how to find a past participle for a regular -er verb?

fallow mountain
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oh right ic

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ye

fallow mountain
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forgot the grave

nimble hemlock
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ok, so mangé and joué are correct

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I'm not sure what verb you're trying to use for the second one

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the verb "to think" is "penser"

fallow mountain
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ohh

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idk why i thoguht its savour

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savour

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savoir

nimble hemlock
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savoir is to know

fallow mountain
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so saié

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help mb

nimble hemlock
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and it's irregular

fallow mountain
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sai

nimble hemlock
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what about for penser?

fallow mountain
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pensé

nimble hemlock
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yup

fallow mountain
nimble hemlock
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(you can't guess for savoir, since it's irregular, so let's ignore it for now)

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ok, so it seems like you're getting it

fallow mountain
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oh so when u speak to waiter or waitress u need to use past tense?

nimble hemlock
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try these:

  • I jumped
  • They loved
fallow mountain
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i didnt know sorry

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jai sauté et vous avez aimé ou adoré

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je ne sais pas

nimble hemlock
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they, not we

fallow mountain
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oh

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right sorry

nimble hemlock
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j'ai sauté is correct (but apostrophes and accents aren't optional, it's better to get used to using them)

fallow mountain
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oui jai reparer

nimble hemlock
fallow mountain
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huhhh 😭 im srry i dont think i ever learnt they

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is it leur lar or cette

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or ton tar tey

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notre?

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or the je me

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ton ta tet

nimble hemlock
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none of the above, I'm just looking for a simple subject pronoun

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je
tu
il/elle/on
nous
vous
ils/elles

fallow mountain
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ohh right sryy

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ils ont aimé

nimble hemlock
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ont*

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but yes

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ok, now you started with the verb "boire"
what's the past participle for that verb?

fallow mountain
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boiré

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nest ce pas oui

nimble hemlock
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nope because boire is irregular

fallow mountain
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oh oki lemme search it up

nimble hemlock
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so how can you know how to form the past participle?

fallow mountain
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its bu💗

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ummm

nimble hemlock
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it is bu

fallow mountain
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if its er its grave if its ir is i and if its re its u

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by technicality it should ve boiru

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but maybe french people think its too hard to say and just sinplify to bu

nimble hemlock
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well, technically or not, the past particple is just "bu" lol

fallow mountain
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i rmbmr ete and eu tho i thoguht those r the only ecception

nimble hemlock
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and they wouldn't find "boiru" hard to say, it's just not the past participle lol

fallow mountain
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ohh ic

nimble hemlock
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in any case, the answer to my question is: since it's irregular, the only way to know the past participle is to look it up (or to have memorized it)

fallow mountain
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yes thats right 😅 ill keep this one in mind! thank you

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so its like vous avez bu un caf?

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ou avez-vous

nimble hemlock
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almost

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ignore the word order for now

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the problem is with the word café

fallow mountain
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ok!

nimble hemlock
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it's masculine

fallow mountain
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word order is rlly hard ngl

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oh so its un caf

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bien sur

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is this vetter?-- vous avez bu un caf?

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do you want to drink some coffee?

nimble hemlock
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un café*

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the word is always café

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and it's always masculine

fallow mountain
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oh ic

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i just rmbmred that most word ending in e is feminine so cafe is an excoetion right

nimble hemlock
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it doesn't mean "do you want to drink some coffee"

fallow mountain
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ohh what does it mean?

nimble hemlock
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it means "did you drink a coffee?"

fallow mountain
fallow mountain
nimble hemlock
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your teacher is amazement?

fallow mountain
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my teacger is amazing

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im thanking u!

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💗

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mon prof est amazement*