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How to say what you've done and how it's been
Avez-vous bien dormi ?
On a beaucoup ²¹¾±³¾Ã© le calme.
The French way of talking about what you have done, or what has happened, follows a similar pattern to English. You start with j'ai, on a, nous avons etc (I have, we have etc) and follow this with a word like ²¹¾±³¾Ã©, vu, fait, dormi (loved, seen, done, slept) .This part of the verb called the past participle.
Most past participles end in -é, -i or -u. Regular -er verbs like aimer give ²¹¾±³¾Ã©, -ir verbs like finir give fini while -re verbs like rendre give rendu.
But there are plenty of irregular past participles:
vu from voir, fait from faire, pu from pouvoir, é³Ùé from ê³Ù°ù±ð, eu from avoir
The French term for this is le passé composé; in English it's the perfect tense, perfect in the sense of 'complete' because it describes a finished action. The English translation includes words like 'have , 'did' or the ending '..ed'.
J'ai visité Cassis: I have visited Cassis, I visited Cassis, I did visit Cassis.
