CBF 2:15 | The perfect tense with irregular verbs
Coffee Break French
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🗓️ 3 June 2009
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
In this week's lesson, we take a look at some verbs which have irregular past participles and are therefore irregular in the perfect tense. Please note that lesson 15 of Season 2 was originally known as lesson 55 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 | Salut tout le monde et bienvenue at Coffee Break French. Welcome back to Coffee Break French. |
| 0:14.0 | Now in this lesson we're going to be continuing to look at the perfect tense. |
| 0:19.0 | And there are some verbs which we've not yet looked at, we've covered R-E verbs, I-R verbs and of course E-R verbs |
| 0:26.0 | but we've not looked at the formation of the past participle of some irregular verbs. |
| 0:31.0 | So in this lesson we'll be looking at the past participle of verbs like |
| 0:35.0 | voire and voire, comprandre and metre. |
| 0:39.0 | So you'll be able to say what you have drunk, what you have seen, what you've understood |
| 0:44.0 | or indeed what you've not understood. |
| 0:47.0 | I hope therefore that you enjoy this lesson of Coffee Break French. |
| 0:56.0 | So Anna to begin with, let's see if you remember how you form the perfect tense in general. |
| 1:07.0 | What are the two things you need? |
| 1:09.0 | Okay, if I can just think back to how you do that, it is you first of all need to conjugate the auxiliary verb |
| 1:19.0 | and then you need to add the past participle. |
| 1:23.0 | Exactly, so we need the auxiliary verb and the past participle. |
| 1:26.0 | Now auxiliary verb, which is the auxiliary verb that we've been using so far? |
| 1:31.0 | We have been using the verb to have. |
| 1:34.0 | Which is? |
| 1:35.0 | Avruach. |
| 1:36.0 | Avruach, okay. |
| 1:37.0 | Now can you remember how to conjugate that in all six persons or eight persons, I suppose? |
| 1:43.0 | Okay, I'm going to go for it, that would be G. |
| 1:47.0 | Tu va? |
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