FRENCH 1A06 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Pluperfect, Massachusetts National Guard, Voir
14 Jul 2018
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Le pass compos is the most commonly used form of the past tense in french. Once you know it, you will be able to express a huge range of ideas in spoken form. It is also a platform for other tenses, including the pluperfect [plus-que-parfait], future perfect [futur ant rieur], past conditional [pass du conditionnel], past anterior [pass ant rieur] and the pass surcompos . While the prospect of learning all these additional tenses may frighten you, i can assure them that you will find them easy if you simply get a good mastery of the pass compos . Le pass compos is also called the conversational past tense, and is used when talking about an action that was completed at a definite time in the past. The english equivalent is (cid:862)i asked; she said; we went. (cid:863) ho(cid:449)e(cid:448)e(cid:396), i(cid:374) fo(cid:396)(cid:373), it is like (cid:862)i have asked; she has said; we have been. (cid:863)
