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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).
Past (form 1): formed with an auxiliary verb in the present conditional; Past (form 2): formed with an auxiliary verb in the imperfect subjunctive. Rarely used. The non-finite forms are: Past participle; Present participle; Gerundive: (constructed by preceding the present participle with the preposition en)
The passé simple is used to express: [1] an event or action, of long or short duration, that is complete, and over, but not necessarily remote in time: Le Général de Gaulle vécut 80 ans. General de Gaulle lived for eighty years. En 1991, l'équipe de France de tennis gagna la coupe Davis. In 1991, the French team won the Davis Cup.
Spanish verbs form one of the more complex areas of Spanish grammar. Spanish is a relatively synthetic language with a moderate to high degree of inflection, which shows up mostly in Spanish conjugation.
c, qu, x, y are sometimes adapted to k, kw, ks, i , but c, x, y (and rarely qu ) are usually retained. Greek letters φ, ῥ become f, r , not ph, rh , but θ usually becomes th (except before a consonant, after f, ch and word finally). - eon, ion, yon - in French loanwords are written with a single n ( mayonaise ) except when a schwa follows ...