The Plus-que-parfait Flashcards
Voter (er)
J'avais vote Tu avais vote Il avait vote Nous avions vote Vous aviez vote Ils avaient vote
The plus -que-parfait
Used to talk about what someone had done or what had occurred before another past action, event, or state, uses form of avoir or etre
Imparfait +past participle = plus-que-parfait.
Finir (ir)
J'avais fini Tu avais fini Il avait fini Nous avions fini Vous aviez fini Ils avaient fini
Perdre (re)
J'avais Perdu Tu avais Perdu Il avait Perdu Nous avions Perdu Vous aviez Perdu Ils avaient Perdu
Etre
Some verbs is motion as well as a few others take etre instead of avoir.
Use the Imparfait of to form the plus-que-parfait.of such verbs and make the past participle agree with the subject.
Les avocates ne savaient pas que vous etiez déjà partie.
The lawyers didn’t know that you had already left
For reflexive or reciprocal verbs
Use the Imparfait of etre as the auxiliary. Make agreement whenever you would do for the passé compose
Using plus que parfait to emphasize that something happened in the past before something else happened.
Example:
La police trouvé les trouvé les armed qu’il avait cachees
The police found weapons that he had hidden
Negation
Place ne… Pas around the conjugated verb
If negating phrase in passé compose/ plus-que/Imparfait place ne… Pas around the auxiliary verb
Auxiliary verb
A verb (such as have, do, or will) that determines the mood, tense, or aspect of another verb in a verb phrase.
Auxiliary verbs always precede main verbs within a verb phrase. Auxiliaries are also known as helping verbs. Contrast with lexical verbs. (See Examples and Observations, below.)