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Agreement of the past participle with the use of the auxiliary "avoir" and a direct object which precedes.
There are 3 cases where the past participle agrees with the direct object above in compound tenses that use the auxiliary "avoir":
- When the direct object above is an unstressed pronoun. For example: "le", "la", "les", "me", "te" etc. "Je les ai vus" (I saw them).
- When the preceding direct object is at the start of a relative clause: for example: "La lettre que j'ai écrite" (The letter which I wrote).
- in questions, when the direct object has been moved before the past participle, for example: "Quelle lettre a-t-il écrite ?" (What letter did he write?).