Welcome back to Coffee Break French. Now in this lesson, we're going to be looking at

a group of verbs which use a slightly different pattern in the perfect tense. That is, they

don't conjugate with aver. Instead, they use the verb et. So we're going to be looking

at verbs such as I lay and learn how to say I have gone or I went. I hope you find this

lesson useful.

Now, so far we've been looking at the perfect tense and we've been looking as you know at

perfect tense, conjugating with the auxiliary verb avouard. In this week's lesson, we're

going to look at a specific type of verb which actually uses a different auxiliary verb.

That auxiliary verb being et. This group of verbs is generally known as et, verbs which

of course makes sense. Just to recap, remember that the perfect tense is formed by taking

part of the auxiliary verb and combining it with the past participle. And we're going

to do exactly that. The only thing that's changing today is the auxiliary verb which

auxiliary verb we're going to use. Now in today's lesson, we're going to be talking about

a specific verb and that verb is the verb to go. Anna, what is to go in French?

Allie. And in this situation, we're going to combine allie with its auxiliary verb which

isn't avouard but et. So as usual, we take a part of the auxiliary verb which in this

case is et and combine it with the past participle of allie. Now, the past participle of allie

is actually regular. So we take off the ear and add earcute and we get.

Allie.

Of course, it sounds exactly the same as usual but it's nevertheless spelled slightly

differently, a-l-l-e-acute. Allie. Now as we've already said, allie does not form the

perfect tense with the auxiliary verb avouard instead it uses et. So to say, I went or

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