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Which Auxiliary? Être or Avoir

Which Auxiliary? Être or Avoir. Yep! Most verbs use “ to have ” as the Auxiliary verb. Only a very small number of verbs use “ to be ”. How can we know when to use “ to be ” or “ to have ” as an Auxiliary verb when using the Perfect or the Plu -perfect tenses in French?.

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Which Auxiliary? Être or Avoir

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  1. Which Auxiliary? Êtreor Avoir Yep! Most verbs use “to have” as the Auxiliary verb. Only a very small number of verbs use “to be”. How can we know when to use “to be”or “to have” as an Auxiliary verb when using the Perfect or the Plu-perfect tenses in French? It is quite simple, Sir Wolf!

  2. I will give you the complete list in the next two pages although the irregular verbs will be dealt with in another lesson. Would you mind very much telling me which verbs use the Auxiliary “to be” then? They tend to be verbs expressing a movement. Careful, though! Some of these verbs are irregular.

  3. Allerto goifynd Venirto come iddod Revenirto come backiddodynôl Devenirto becomeiddodneuifynd Partirto leaveiadael Sortirto go outifyndallan Naîtreto be bornganwyd Mourirto dieifarw Darling, give us the list of IRREGULAR verbs using the Auxiliary “to be”.

  4. Arriverto arriveigyrraedd Descendreto go down ifyndilawr Entrerto go iniddodimewn Monterto go upifyndifyny Rentrerto go homeifyndadref Retournerto returniddychwelyd Tomberto falliddisgyn Passer par to go throughifyndtrwy Chérie, give us the list of REGULAR verbs using the Auxiliary “to be”.

  5. When using the Auxiliary “to be”, the Past Participle form of the Active Verb MUST AGREE in Gender and Number with the Person or Thing doing the Action. Mama mia, what does all this jargon mean? What is it, Porky? Hum!!There is a little problem with verbs using “to be” as the Auxiliary verb

  6. The Number means that one or more than one person or thing is doing the action The Gender means that the person or thing doing the action is either Masculine or Feminine Gee! Let’s see on the next slide how this applies to the Past Participle of the Active Verb “MUST AGREE”, means that the ending of the verb changes depending on these 2 factors

  7. je suis entr é(e) J’ étais entr é(e) tu es entr é(e) tu étais entr é(e) il est entr é il était entr é elle est entr ée elle était entr ée nous sommes entr é(e)s nous étions entr é(e)s vous êtes entr é(e)s vous étiez entr é(e)s ils sont entr és ils étaient entr és elles sont entr ées elles étaient entr ées Passé composé Plus-que-Parfait Add an “e” when a feminine subject does the action Add an “s” when more than one does the action Let’s use for example a typical ER verb, ENTRER

  8. Passé composé Ready for a little bit of practice? Click the pigs and the house. Quiz Plus-que-Parfait

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