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Please conjugate the verbs faire and aller into the passé composé

The passé composé can be translated with the present perfect or the simple past in English. We use it to indicate that an action in the past has been completed. We use this form in particular to emphasise...

Answered by Lucie K. • French tutor

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Which verbs use etre and which use avoir in the past tense, and why?

The past tense is constructed in 2 parts: 1) the auxiliary 'avoir' or 'être' is conjugated in the present + 2) the past participle of the verb. The majority of verbs use avoir in the past tense (e.g. j'ai...

Answered by Flick W. • French tutor

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Translate the following passage: If you have read the newspapers or if you have watched the news on television you will know that demonstrations have become more and more widespread in France recently. Many pupils are taking to the streets in several town

Si vous avez lu des journaux, ou si vous avez régardé des actualités, vous sauriez que les manifestations sont devenues plus et plus étendues en France récemment. Beaucoup d'étudiants sortent dans les rue...

Answered by Alexandra A. • French tutor

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How do you conjugate the conditional tense?

You take the future stem of the verb, for -er and -ir verbs, this is the infinitive and for -re verbs, you take the e off the infinitive, and then you add the imperfect endings, -ais, -ais, -ait, -ions, -...

Answered by Alice R. • French tutor

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Tu passes un bon moment en vacances et tu décides d’envoyer un e-mail à ton ami pour lui raconter. Écris l’e-mail que tu lui enverrais.

Salut Sébastien,J’espère que ça va bien et que tu passes de bonnes vacances! Je suis avec ma famille au ski dans les Alpes. C’est génial! Il a y beaucoup de neige donc on a fait beaucoup de pistes. On a a...

Answered by Mariella S. • French tutor

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