User:Atcovi/French/The Passé Composé

The passé composé, or "past indefinite" in English, of most verbs is formed by putting together the present tense of the verb, avoir, and the past participle of the verb being used. The endings of the past participles of regular verbs have patterns. Take note that there are obviously exceptions to these patterns listed below (they are irregular verbs with irregular past participles).

In the passé composé, avoir is treated as the main verb (and has the "past participle" added to it). Therefore, in the negative, ONLY the avoir is made negative, while in the interrogative, the avoir changed to the interrogative.

Exceptions
Here are the exceptions (irregular past participles):
 * Prendre (to take) → pris
 * Mettre (to put) → mis
 * Faire (to do) → fait
 * Voir (to see) → vu
 * Vouloir (to want) → voulu
 * Lire (to read) → lu