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<div style="font-size:200%">Agreement of the past participle with the use of the auxiliary "avoir" and a direct object which precedes.</div> | <div style="font-size:200%">Agreement of the past participle with the use of the auxiliary "avoir" and a direct object which precedes.</div> | ||
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==Definitions== | |||
=== Subject-verb agreement === | |||
The agreement in French (the agreement) is the way to choose the correct ending for verbs in terms of grammatical persons, gender and number, depending on their subject. | |||
=== Past participle=== | |||
The past participle is a verb form with several roles. It’s essential in the creation of compound verb tenses/moods and the passive voice, and it can also be used as an adjective. The French past participle usually ends -é, -i, or -u, and is equivalent to -ed or -en in English. | |||
== French Auxilaries == | |||
There are only 2 auxiliaries in French: "avoir" or "être". As "avoir", "être" is used to form compound tenses for some verbs. | |||
==Compound Tenses in French== | |||
Conjugations for the different French verb tenses and moods can be divided into 2 categories: | |||
*'''simple''' and '''compound'''. | |||
Simple tenses and moods have only 1 part (e.g., "je mange") whereas compound tenses and moods have 2 (e.g., "j'ai mangé"). | |||
==3 cases== | |||
There are 3 cases where the past participle agrees with the preceding direct object in compound tenses that use the auxiliary "avoir": | There are 3 cases where the past participle agrees with the preceding direct object in compound tenses that use the auxiliary "avoir": | ||