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The Simple Past

The Simple Past. Le Passé Simple. When to use it?. The “passé simple”, translated in English as either simple past, preterite or historical past.

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The Simple Past

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  1. The Simple Past Le Passé Simple

  2. When to use it? • The “passé simple”, translated in English as either simple past, preterite or historical past. • In such writing and speech, the “passé simple” is used alongside the imperfect, just as in everyday speech/writing, the passé composé and imperfect are used together. • It is the equivalent of the passé composé, which means that it is used only in formal writing (e.g., historical and literary writing) and very formal speech.

  3. How is it formed? • The passé simple of regular verbs is formed by dropping the infinitive ending and adding the passé simple endings. Je Tu Il/elle Nous Vous ils?/elles parlai parlas parla parlâmes parlâtes parlèrent mangeai mangeas mangea mangeâmes mangeâtes mangèrent lançai lanças lança lançâmes lançâtes lançèrent

  4. How is it formed? Je Tu Il/elle Nous Vous ils?/elles finis finis finit finîmes finîtes finirent rendis rendis rendit rendîmes rendîtes rendirent vis vis vit vîmes vîtes virent

  5. Irregular verbs you need to know avoir 'to have’ j'eus nous eûmes tueusvouseûtes Il/elle/on eutils / elleseurent faire 'to do’ je fis nous fîmes tufisvousfîtes Il/elle/on fitils / ellesfirent être 'to be’ je fus nous fûmes tufusvousfûtes Il /elle/ on futils / ellesfurent aller'to go’ J’allai nous allâmes tuallasvousallâtes Il/elle/on allails / ellesallèrent

  6. Exercises Verbes en ‘er http://exercices.free.fr/francais/conjug/indicatif/passe_simple/ind_psimpl_1g5.htm Verbes en ‘ir http://exercices.free.fr/francais/conjug/indicatif/passe_simple/ind_psimpl_2g2.htm Être/ avoir/faire/aller http://exercices.free.fr/francais/conjug/indicatif/passe_simple/ind_psimpl_3etre2.htm http://exercices.free.fr/francais/conjug/indicatif/passe_simple/ind_psimpl_3avoir1.htm http://exercices.free.fr/francais/conjug/indicatif/passe_simple/ind_psimpl_3faire1.htm http://exercices.free.fr/francais/conjug/indicatif/passe_simple/ind_psimpl_3aller1.htm Conjugemos https://conjuguemos.com/activity.php?language=french&id=13&source=public&type=verbs#

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