CBF 2:14 | The perfect tense continued
Coffee Break French
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🗓️ 23 May 2009
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
In this week’s lesson we continue looking at the perfect tense, this time using regular -re and -ir verbs. We also think about the different uses of the perfect tense. Please note that lesson 14 of Season 2 was originally known as lesson 54 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. |
| 0:11.6 | Welcome back to Coffee Break French. |
| 0:13.7 | And last time we were looking at the formation of the past participle of ER verbs. |
| 0:20.2 | This time we're adding to that and we're going to look at the formation of the past participle |
| 0:25.0 | of R-E verbs and I-R verbs. |
| 0:28.7 | So we'll take for example vando and talk about what you have sold and finire and talk |
| 0:34.5 | about what you have finished in the perfect tense. |
| 0:37.9 | I hope you find this lesson useful. |
| 0:48.2 | So, so far we've been looking at the perfect tense of regular ER verbs and a reminder |
| 0:58.6 | is how you form the perfect tense of regular ER verbs. |
| 1:02.8 | Alright, it's the auxiliary verb followed by the past participle. |
| 1:06.9 | Okay, so let's get into this a little more deeply. |
| 1:10.6 | The auxiliary verb was the auxiliary verb. |
| 1:13.6 | And the auxiliary verb in this case is avoire. |
| 1:16.8 | Avoire meaning to have. |
| 1:18.9 | So for example part of the auxiliary verb could be ʊʒe or tua, ila, ila, ila, and so on. |
| 1:24.7 | And then you mentioned the past participle, what is the past participle? |
| 1:28.8 | The past participle is when you take away the ʊʒe and you add ʊʒe a cute. |
| 1:33.6 | And that's for regular ER verbs, isn't it? |
| 1:36.2 | Yes, exactly. |
| 1:37.2 | Today we're going to be adding regular ʊʒe and regular ʊʒe, okay, so let's begin by |
| 1:44.7 | thinking about ʊʒe verbs. |
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