This agreement is necessary in the following cases:
Agreement of the participe passéįor certain verbs, the participe passé has to agree in gender and number with either the subject or the object of the sentence. If the infinitive ends in -re, the participle ends in uįor the irregular verbs, however, we have to look up their participle forms in the list of irregular verbs, or check the verb conjugator - or simply learn them by heart.If the infinitive ends in -ir, the participle ends in i Example: fin ir – fin i.If the infinitive ends in -er, the participle ends in é Example: aim er – aim é.Example: À quelle heure seras -tu sorti ? What time will you have left?īut: Auras-tu sorti les carottes du frigo ? Will you have taken the carrots out of the fridge? Participe passé: the past participleįor regular verbs that end in -er/- ir/-re, the p articipe passé is easy to construct: In this case, the meaning of the verb often changes.
We use avoir when descendre, (r)entrer, (re)monter, retourner and sortir are followed by a direct object. I’ll have gone on holiday.Ĭheck out our page on avoir/être to pick up some tips on remembering which verbs take être as their auxiliary in the compound tenses with the following verbs and their derivative forms: naître/mourir to be born/to die, aller/venir to go/to come, monter/descendre to go up/to go down, arriver/partir to arrive/to leave, entrer/sortir to enter/to go out, apparaître to appear, rester to stay, retourner to return, tomber to fall and their related forms such as: revenir to come back, rentrer to go back in, remonter to go back up, redescendre to go back down, repartir to leave again.Įxample: Je serai parti en vacances.with reflexive verbs Example: Je me serai trompé dans mon calcul.The auxiliary verb être is used in the following cases: Most verbs construct the futur antérieur with the help verb avoir. Example: Je ne me serai pas trompé dans mon calcul.
I’ll have left.→ I won’t have left.įor reflexive verbs, the reflexive pronoun and the auxiliary verb come after the first part of the negation (ne) and before the past participle. I’ll have laughed.→ I won’t have laughed. In negative sentences, the past participle comes after the second part of the negation (pas).