Whereas in English we use the present perfect, in French you use the future perfect (futur antérieur). This is then matched with either of the normal future tenses. (Updated) Here’s that concordance in action in a sentence similar to yours: ...
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“La tant attendu…” ou “la tant attendue…” ?
Associations EditorsOn connait déjà le genre du nom qualifié au moment d’écrire le participe passé donc accord : La tant attendue mise à jour… Le tant attendu logiciel… De toute façon, on n’est pas dans un cas d’utilisation d’auxiliaire être ou ...
“Alors qu’il s’était allongé” or “alors qu’il s’était allongeait”?
Business EditorsIt’s something called Passé composé and Plus-que-parfait. It happens in English too: the present perfect is “I have lain down”. The past perfect (quite similar to the pluperfect) is “I had lain down”. “Lain” is the past participle which doesn’t ...
How did the Latin past participle suffix -atus develop into modern French -é?
Business EditorsHere is an incomplete answer just to get the ball rolling. I haven’t had the time to find “good” sources about the sound changes so this is just based on Wikipedia’s “Phonological history of French” and my memory of things ...
“Vu” ou “vue”, que choisir ?
Associations EditorsVu is a past participle meaning “seen”. Vue is vu when it agrees with a feminine noun. So compare these two phrases where vu(e) is the past participle: Le château vu de l’extérieur The castle seen from outside. La maison ...
Gender and number agreement with past participle
Business EditorsEnfant is one of these few words called épicenes, i.e. which has the same form for both genders, is masculine and feminine. Here we know the child is a little girl so she is une enfant. What might be even ...
Agreement in “tu m’as quittée”
Business EditorsWhen the auxiliary used to form the past tense is avoir, the past participle agreement is done with the direct object (provided that it appears before the verb, otherwise no agreement is done). In this sentence tu is the subject. ...
Does the Past Participle in a sentence stay the same when avoir is used?
Business EditorsGenerally the past participle does not change with the auxiliary avoir, except for the case it is placed before the verb and there is a Complement d’objet direct-COD in the sentence. In this case the participle will inherit from the ...
Accord du participe passé avec mise en relief, interrogation, et négation
Associations EditorsLe mot « que » dans tous les exemples donnés est un pronom relatif COD, et il est placé avant le verbe ; donc le participe passé s’accorde avec ce COD. J’ai fini par me convaincre que l’accord devait se ...
Accord participe passé + pronom
Business EditorsLes personnes ont encouragé qui ? Nous! Le complément d’objet direct nous est placé avant le verbe avoir. L’accord se fait donc avec nous. Le participe passé doit être au pluriel. Il sera souvent au masculin mais devra être au ...