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Directly transitive verbs take the auxiliary “avoir”
All transitive verbs take the auxiliary avoir in compound tenses, whether the object is present or omitted:
French | Translation |
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Elle a quitté le Pays de Galles | She has left Wales |
J'ai rencontré un ami | I met a friend |
Dans la bousculade Laurent avait reçu des coups | In the confusion Laurent had been hit |
On a attendu | We waited |
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- Agreement of the past participle when using “avoir” with a preceding direct object
- Types of adverbs
- Unstressed and Stressed Pronouns
- "de" when an adjective precedes the noun
- Demonstrative determiners
- Agreement with a preceding direct object pronoun when the participle is followed by infinitives
- English and French adverb formation
- Definite and indefinite articles
- Indirectly transitive verbs
- Problems with passive different direct objects
- Gender of countries, towns, islands, rivers, regions and states
- « d'autres » VS « des autres »
- Use of the definite article with superlatives
- Direct object quantifiers and « en »
- Order of multiple pronouns with imperatives