When to Make Agreement in the Passé Composé French verbs are conjugated in the passé composé either with avoir or être as their auxiliary verbs. When using être as an auxiliary verb, past participles need to agree with their subjects in number and gender. When using avoir as an auxiliary verb, you usually don’t need toContinue reading “When to Make Agreement in the Passé Composé”
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Agreement With Direct Objects in the Passé Composé
Agreement With Direct Objects in the Passé Composé: When a direct object or direct object pronoun precedes a past participle, the helping verb is avoir. The direct object and past participle need to agree in number and gender.