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Form The Perfect With Avoir
- Use the auxiliary avoir plus the past participle to form the French perfect (passé composé).
- Conjugate the auxiliary, not the past participle, for subject and tense.
Make Past Participles For -re Verbs
- For regular -re verbs, remove -re and add -u to form the past participle (vendre → vendu).
- Use that past participle with avoir: Je vendu la maison → Je ai vendu la maison.
Make Past Participles For -ir Verbs
- For regular -ir verbs, remove -ir and add -i to form the past participle (finir → fini).
- Pair that participle with avoir which changes by subject: J'ai fini, Il a fini, Nous avons fini.