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The perfect tense is used to describe a one-off action which occurred in the past. It requires three components: SUBJECT (je/tu/il/elle/on/nous/vous/ils/elles) + AUXILIARY (present tense form of avoir) + ...

Many methods will tell you that verbs of movement take être in the perfect tense but that's not very helpful, since many verbs of movement do not use “être”, such as “danser (to dance), sauter (to jump), ...

Like other regular verbs that end in 'er', all you need to do is take off the 'r', which leaves you with 'joue'. 'I play' would be translated as 'je joue' in French.

Generally speaking, the imperfect describes:

1. Ongoing events which haven't been completed yet E.g. J’étais à l’école – I was at school.

2. Repeated actions – non-specific n...

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