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The passé composé is formed by the auxiliary verb, usually the avoir auxiliary, followed by the past participle.The construction is parallel to that of the present perfect (there is no difference in French between perfect and non-perfect forms - although there is an important difference in usage between the perfect tense and the imperfect tense).
French verbs have a large number of simple (one-word) forms. These are composed of two distinct parts: the stem (or root, or radix), which indicates which verb it is, and the ending (inflection), which indicates the verb's tense (imperfect, present, future etc.) and mood and its subject's person (I, you, he/she etc.) and number, though many endings can correspond to multiple tense-mood-subject ...
Present perfect (passé composé): figuratively "compound past", formed with an auxiliary verb in the present; Imperfect (imparfait), simple; Pluperfect (plus-que-parfait): figuratively "more than perfect", formed with an auxiliary verb in the imperfect
The passé simple (French pronunciation: [pase sɛ̃pl], simple past, preterite, or past historic), also called the passé défini (IPA: [pase defini], definite past), is the literary equivalent of the passé composé in the French language, used predominantly in formal writing (including history and literature) and formal speech.
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"Il faut savoir" (You've got to learn) is a song written in 1961 by Armenian-French artist Charles Aznavour. History For ...
"Savoir aimer" (French pronunciation: [savwaʁ ɛme]) is a 1997 song recorded by the French singer Florent Pagny. It was the first single from his album of the same name, on which it features as first track, and his 14th single overall. Released in October 1997, it was a smash success in France and Belgium, topping the chart for several months ...
Va savoir (Who Knows? ) is a 2001 French romantic comedy-drama film directed by Jacques Rivette . It stars Jeanne Balibar , Sergio Castellitto , Marianne Basler , Hélène de Fougerolles , and Catherine Rouvel .