Practice agreement of past participles with être
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| Do you know how to talk about your weekend in French? |
| Welcome to Three Step French Practice by FrenchPod101.com. |
| In this lesson, you will practice talking about your weekend using le passé composé with both être and avoir. |
| Let's look at the main dialogue. |
| Two people are having a conversation. |
| Tu as fait quoi ce week‑end, Corentin ? |
| "What did you do this weekend, Corentin?" |
| Samedi, je suis allé pêcher avec mon père à l'aube. |
| "Saturday I went fishing with my dad at dawn." |
| je suis allé |
| This sentence uses le passé composé, a tense for completed actions in the past. |
| Here, the verb aller uses être as the helping verb, not avoir, because it's a movement verb. |
| In French, most verbs use avoir to form le passé composé: |
| Subject + avoir + past participle |
| But some verbs — especially those showing movement or change of state — use être instead: |
| Subject + être + past participle (+ agreement) |
| So in our dialogue, je suis allé means "I went." |
| It follows the être pattern. |
| We'll keep practicing how to talk about what you did and where you went using both structures. |
| Let's get started. |
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