CBF 2:17 | More verbs which form the perfect tense with être
Coffee Break French
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🗓️ 20 June 2009
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
In this lesson, we look at the other verbs that take être as their auxiliary verb in the perfect tense and we consider a way to remember them. Please note that lesson 17 of Season 2 was originally known as lesson 57 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 | ... |
| 0:09.0 | Bonjour tout le monde et bienvenue à Coffee Break French. |
| 0:12.0 | Welcome back to Coffee Break French. |
| 0:14.0 | In this lesson, we're continuing to look at |
| 0:17.0 | être verbs in the perfect tense. |
| 0:19.0 | That's verbs which use être |
| 0:21.0 | as their auxiliary verb rather than aver. |
| 0:24.0 | So you learn all the verbs |
| 0:26.0 | which take être in the perfect tense, |
| 0:28.0 | including verbs such as allé, |
| 0:30.0 | we've already made, |
| 0:31.0 | to go, venir, to come, |
| 0:33.0 | monter, to go up, |
| 0:35.0 | descendre, to come down, |
| 0:37.0 | arriver, to arrive, |
| 0:39.0 | partir, to leave, and so on. |
| 0:42.0 | By the end of this lesson, |
| 0:43.0 | you'll be able to conjugate |
| 0:44.0 | all of these verbs in the perfect tense. |
| 0:47.0 | I hope that you enjoy this lesson. |
| 0:58.0 | Just a reminder, |
| 1:02.0 | the perfect tense is, of course, |
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