Perfect tense

The Perfect Tense relates to events which:

·         Took place in the past

·         Happened just once

·         Have been completed

They use the Auxiliary Verbs ‘être’ and ‘avoir’:

être

avoir

Je suis

J’ai

Tu es

Tu as

Il/Elle/On est

Il/Elle/On a

Nous avons

Nous sommes

Vous avez

Vous êtes

Ils/Elles  ont

Ils/Elles sont

Most Verbs take avoir

DR MRS VAN DER TRAMP  and reflexive take être

And the past participle. In the Perfect Tense, these are:

-er becomes –é

-ir becomes –i

-re becomes –u

Dr Mrs Van Der Tramp

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