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Success in French Grammar | The Present Perfect (past) Tense

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Overview

An in-depth study guide with lessons and practice exercises to help you master the present perfect tense in French

What you'll learn:
  • How to form the present perfect tense (aka the past tense) in French
  • How to make this tense negative
  • How to form questions (positive and negative) in the past tense
  • We'll look at all the irregular verbs and their past participles in French
  • We'll tackle a group of verbs called the "Verbs of Movement" and meet a lady called Mrs Van der Tramp

Learn to manipulate the French language to allow you to say whatever you want.

The present perfect tense is a tense you can use to talk about the past. It's made up of two parts and, in English, it looks like this:

"I have eaten"

"Have you seen Marie"

"We haven't spoken to Pierre"

"Haven't they finished?"

With this course, you'll learn exactly how to use this tense in French.

You'll learn how to form this tense and manipulate it into the negative and also into questions. We'll look at regular and irregular verbs as well as the verbs of movement.

With over 2,300 practice exercises, you'll have plenty of opportunity to master this tense.

Syllabus

  • Introduction
  • Lesson 1 | What is the present perfect tense in English?
  • Lesson 2 | The present perfect tense in French
  • Lesson 3 | Forming the past participle
  • Lesson 4
  • Lesson 5
  • Lesson 6
  • Lesson 7
  • Lesson 8
  • Lesson 9
  • Lesson 10
  • Lesson 11
  • Lesson 12
  • Lesson 13
  • Lesson 14
  • Lesson 15
  • Lesson 16
  • Lesson 17
  • Lesson 18
  • Lesson 19
  • Lesson 20
  • Bonus lecture

Taught by

Kieran Ball

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