ItвЂ™s essential in the creation of compound verb tenses/moods and the passive voice, and it can also be used as an adjective. The past participle is a verb form with several roles. The passГ© composГ© is used to describe actions that occurred in the past. (See Past participle agreement for rules on agreement.) Use. The passГ© composГ© is a compound tense formed with the present tense of the auxiliary (avoir or ГЄtre, see auxiliaries) and the past participle: Elle a achetГ© des livres aujourdвЂ™hui. What tense is Je Viens De?ДЇrench Immediate Past Tense вЂ“ Je viens de. In English, we use the construction have just + past participle, while in French we use the conjugated form of the verb venir. What is the passГ© rГ©cent? We use le passГ© rГ©cent (the recent past) to talk about completed actions that happened shortly before the moment of speaking. ItвЂ™s called the passГ© proche вЂ“ near past, or recent past in English. ItвЂ™s used when two actions happened in sequence, one very close to the other. The expression вЂVENIR DE + infinitive verbвЂ™ expresses the notion of just did something, had just done something. There is the composed past, or passe composГ©, a specific action that was begun and completed in the past, such as: Je suis allГ© en France. Remembrance of Things Past Like the futur proche, or near future, in French, the recent past tense, or passГ© rГ©cent, expresses the fluidity of time.

PassГ© rГ©cent You can explain what happened in the recent past with the construction venir de + infinitive, the French equivalent of вЂњto have just done.вЂќ To use le passГ© rГ©cent, conjugate venir in the present tense according to the subject, then follow it with the preposition de and the infinitive of the action verb. We can compare the recent past with the English structure have just + past participle. The passГ© rГ©cent is used to speak about a completed action that took place shortly before the moment of speaking.

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