FREN 3570 Chapter 5: Plus-que parfait
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The plus-que parfait translates to had + past participle: i had eaten, i had spoken, i had been. Use the plus-que parfait when you want to say something that had already happened before something else took place in the past. Forming the plus-que parfait: use the imparfait + the pass compos . The auxillary verb will be tre or avoir in the imparfait and not the pass compose. Tu avais parl you had spoken. Tu tais arriv (e) you had arrived. Elle tait arriv e she had arrived. When using tre as the auxillary verb, the past participle of the verb still agrees with gender and number. When to use the plus-que parfait: this tense refers to completed actions and events that have taken place before another past action.
