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The passé composé is formed by the auxiliary verb, usually the avoir auxiliary, followed by the past participle.The construction is parallel to that of the present perfect (there is no difference in French between perfect and non-perfect forms - although there is an important difference in usage between the perfect tense and the imperfect tense).
Present perfect (passé composé): literally "compound past", formed with an auxiliary verb in the present Imperfect ( imparfait ), simple Pluperfect ( plus-que-parfait ): literally "more than perfect", formed with an auxiliary verb in the imperfect
The passé simple (French pronunciation: [pase sɛ̃pl], simple past, preterite, or past historic), also called the passé défini (IPA: [pase defini], definite past), is the literary equivalent of the passé composé in the French language, used predominantly in formal writing (including history and literature) and formal speech.
In the present subjunctive, the same rules as for the present indicative apply, though these forms coexist in Argentina with those for the pronoun tú: Que vosotros digáis – que vos digás; Or: Que tú digas – que vos digas; Other tenses always have the same form for vos as for tú. Outside Argentina, other combinations are possible.