The passé composé is a tense used to express an action or a state that happened in the past. We call it “composé” because it’s composed of two parts: An auxiliary, either the auxiliary “être” to be or the auxiliary “avoir” to have and a past participle of a verb. In this part we will only tackle the passé composé of the verbs of the first group that require the auxiliary “avoir”.
Remember: All verbs of the first group end in “
er”.
For example:
penser,
prêter,
danser,
chanter,
marcher, etc...
Let’s explore the following example: