#lyssie [corrigez-moi svp]

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weary heart
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et j'ai oublié aussi

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you're talking about a moment in the past in a moment in the past?

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ok wait so j'avais oublier doesn't exist?

median patio
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"j'avais oublier" is incorrect, but a common mistake. it sounds the same as "j'avais oublié"

weary heart
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😭 i'm trying to research this

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merci

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so after a verb is used in the imparfait you have to use the next verb in passé composé ?

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past participle i mean

echo mauve
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This is a tense called le plus-que-parfait which is used to refer to events that happened further in the past than le passé composé

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It's formed using the conjugation from l'imparfait and the past participle of the verb

weary heart
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so if i wanted to say something like "i started to learn french 10 years ago" would i use plus que parfait ?

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thank you! i'll look into that!

echo mauve
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In most cases

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"Je lui ai dit que j'avais commencé à apprendre le français il y a 10 ans" would be a context where you can use this tense though!

weary heart
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ah okay, and so are être or avoir always going to come before the past participle?

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like j'etais allée?

echo mauve
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Yes. These are called auxiliary verbs and always come before the past participle in compound tenses

spark drift
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J’ai oublié = I forgot/I have forgotten

J’avais oublié = I had forgotten

latent gale
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There's no such thing as "avoir oublier"