CBF 2:13 | The perfect tense
Coffee Break French
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🗓️ 16 May 2009
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
In this lesson, we introduce the perfect tense of regular -er verbs. Please note that lesson 13 of Season 2 was originally known as lesson 53 of Coffee Break French. We have renumbered the lessons of each season as lessons 1-40 to make things more simple for our listeners.
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| 0:00.0 | Bonjour tout le monde et bienvenue à Coffee Break French. |
| 0:11.4 | Welcome back to Coffee Break French. |
| 0:13.6 | In this episode, we're taking a look back towards the past. |
| 0:16.9 | Not past episodes of Coffee Break French, but the past so that we can start talking about |
| 0:21.3 | what happened or what has happened in the past. |
| 0:24.6 | We'll be looking there for the formation of the perfect tense which is formed by combining |
| 0:29.8 | Avoir, a verb which we know already, and the past participle. |
| 0:34.6 | We'll be talking about how to form past participles in this lesson. |
| 0:38.4 | I hope you enjoy it. |
| 0:42.6 | Now, the perfect tense or some of you may know it as the present perfect tense is the |
| 0:55.9 | tense that you use in French to talk about what you have done. |
| 1:00.7 | And it reminds us what you said. |
| 1:02.3 | You said you have done particular things. |
| 1:04.8 | What have you done? |
| 1:06.6 | I said that I have had lots to do for uni. |
| 1:10.1 | I have had. |
| 1:12.0 | And that I have prepared a presentation on German culture. |
| 1:15.4 | Okay, so I have prepared and. |
| 1:19.1 | And I said that I have also joined a gym and I have worked out every day. |
| 1:25.2 | So I have joined, I have worked out, I have prepared, I have had. |
| 1:30.2 | And I said I have taken some time off this week. |
| 1:33.1 | I have spent some time with my family and I have had lots of content to prepare. |
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