| Clothes | Colours/Colors | Comparisons | Compound words | Conditional and hypothesis | Conjunctions | Contractions | Countries and nationalities | Dates, days, months, seasons | Dictation | Direct/Indirect speech | Diseases | Etre | Exclamative sentences! | False friends | Family | Films | Find the correct tense | Find the missing letter | Find the word | Food | Frequent mistakes | Future | Games | Gender | General | Geography, history, politics, literature. | Banks, money | Beginners | Betty's adventures | Bilingual dialogues | Business | Buying in a shop | Capital letters | Cars | Celebrations: Thanksgiving, new year. | Adjectives | Adverbs | Agreement/Disagreement | Alphabet | Animals | Articles | Audio test | BE, HAVE, DO, DID, WAS. We had not yet returned from the market.> LESSONS AND TESTS: Abbreviations and acronyms. Nous nвЂ™Г©tions pas encore rentrГ©s du marchГ©. The car had broken down before reaching the bridge. La voiture Г©tait tombГ©e en panne avant dвЂ™arriver au pont. They (masculine) had not yet made dinner when the family arrived. Ils nвЂ™avaient pas encore prГ©parГ© le dГ®ner quand la famille est arrivГ©e. Nous nвЂ™avions pas encore Г©crit les lettres. Nous avons trouvГ© le livre que tu avais perdu.ДЄvant dвЂ™ГЄtre professeur, Richard avait Г©tГ© homme dвЂ™affaires.Д«efore being a professor, Richard had been a businessman. The reservations? He had made them for us this morning. Les rГ©servations? Il nous les avait faites ce matin. The same is true for the adverbial pronouns Y and EN. Remember that direct object pronouns, indirect object pronouns, and reflexive pronouns are placed in FRONT of the conjugated auxiliary verb. They had not yet been born when we moved. Ils nвЂ™ Г©taient pas encore nГ©s quand nous avons dГ©mГ©nagГ©. Guillaume said that he had missed the bus.ДЄs with other compound tenses, in a negative statement ne (or nвЂ™) precedes the conjugated auxiliary verb and the remaining negative expression follows the auxiliary verb. Guillaume a dit quвЂ™il avait manquГ© le bus. ( Fact: He hadnвЂ™t studied, so he didnвЂ™t pass the exam.)ДЄnd, just like in English, the Past Perfect is also used in indirect (reported) speech:

If he had studied, he would have passed the exam. SвЂ™il avait Г©tudiГ©, il aurait rГ©ussi Г lвЂ™examen. The Past Perfect is also used to discuss hypothetical past events. She had already woken up when the alarm clock went off. You (informal) had learned French before traveling to Quebec.Д®lle sвЂ™ Г©tait dГ©jГ rГ©veillГ©e quand le rГ©veille-matin a sonnГ©. Tu avais appris le franГ§ais avant de voyager au QuГ©bec. You all had already finished your homework when we arrived. Vous aviez dГ©jГ fini vos devoirs quand nous sommes arrivГ©s. The Past Perfect is used to discuss an action that had already happened before another past action took place. The Past Perfect вЂ“ also called the Pluperfect (le plus-que-parfait) вЂ“ is f0rmed with the imperative tense (lвЂ™imparfait) form of the auxiliary verb ( AVOIR or ГЉTRE) + the past participleof the main verb.ДЄll rules that apply to the choice of auxiliary verb and past participle agreement in the PassГ© ComposГ© are identical to the rules for the Past Perfect. They use a conjugated auxiliary verb (either AVOIR or ГЉTRE) combined with the past participleВ of the main verb. Perfect tensesВ are also known as compound tenses.

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