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Agreement of the past participle of verbs conjugated with “avoir” with a preceding direct object
There are three cases where past participles agree with preceding direct objects in the compound tenses of verbs conjugated with avoir:
- when the preceding direct object is an unstressed pronoun like le, la, les, me, te etc., e.g. Je les ai vus 'I saw them';
- when the preceding direct object is the head of a relative clause: e.g. La lettre que j'ai écrite 'The letter which I wrote';
- in questions, when the direct object has been moved to a position preceding the past participle, e.g. Quelle lettre a-t-il écrite?