page_title: Passé composé
hierarchical_section_title: Passé composé
caption_attribution_description: The house diagram employed by french language teachers in order for students to visualize which verbs go with être. Employs Image:Bird 1010720 drawing.svg and part of Image:Zwaluwen op dakgoot schaliedak.JPG, all which have been released under the GNU Free Documentation license.
context_page_description: The passé composé is the most used past tense in the modern French language. It is used to express an action that has been finished completely or incompletely at the time of speech, or at some time in the past. The passé composé originally corresponded in function to the English present perfect, but is now used mainly as the equivalent of the simple past.
  The passé composé is formed using an auxiliary verb and the past participle of a verb.
context_section_description: The passé composé ([paˈse kɔ̃poˈze], compound past) is the most used past tense in the modern French language. It is used to express an action that has been finished completely or incompletely at the time of speech, or at some (possibly unknown) time in the past. The passé composé originally corresponded in function to the English present perfect, but is now used mainly as the equivalent of the simple past.
  The passé composé is formed using an auxiliary verb and the past participle of a verb.
caption: Diagram showing which verbs (apart from les verbes pronominaux) are conjugated with être; below each verb in infinitive form is the past participle.
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