Practice using the passé composé with irregular verbs
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| Do you know how to simply describe a recent vacation in French? |
| Welcome to Three Step French Practice by FrenchPod101.com. In this lesson, you will practice using le passé composé with irregular verbs, the tense for completed actions in the past. |
| Let's look at the main dialogue. |
| Two people are having a conversation. |
| Tu as visité des villes connues ? |
| "Did you visit famous towns?" |
| Oui, on a découvert Saint‑Malo et mangé des crêpes chaque jour. |
| "Yes, we discovered Saint‑Malo and ate crêpes every day." |
| as visité |
| a découvert |
| This dialogue uses le passé composé — a tense used to describe completed actions. |
| Visiter and découvrir are both conjugated here in le passé composé using avoir as the helping verb. |
| In French, most verbs form le passé composé with: |
| Subject + [passé composé form of main verb] + complement |
| For example: |
| On a découvert, meaning "We discovered" |
| We'll keep practicing how to describe things you did and experienced using this structure. |
| Let's get started! |
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