FINAL STUDY GUIDE FRENCH 2

PASSE COMPOSE

  • The passé composé is a ______tense, which means it has a conjugated auxillary verb and a ______, which together form a single verb in the past tense.IT IS MADE OF 2 PARTS!!!
  • The verbs ______and ______are the helping verbs used in the passé compose.
  • Regular –er verbs end in ______in the past participle.
  • Regular –ir verbs end in ______in the past participle.
  • Regular –re verbs end in ______in the past participle.
  • List the past participles of the following irregular verbs (make sure you know what they mean)

mettre______prendre______

venir______faire______

être______avoir______

ouvrir______savoir______

connaitre______voir______

vouloir______pouvoir______

dire______écrire______

recevoir______

I watched______She saw______

We finished______They made______

  • VERBS THAT USE ETRE INTHE PASSE COMPOSE MAKE THE PAST PARTICIPLE AGREE IN ______AND ______with the subject.
  • Vandertramp verbs use ______as the helping verb
  • The 17 Vandertramp verbs are

She fell______We left______

He went______They stayed______

REFLEXIVE VERBS

  • The reflexive indicates an action the subject does to______.
  • How can I identify a reflexive verb in the infinitive?______
  • The reflexive pronouns match the ______.
  • The reflexive pronouns, in subject pronouns order, are

Je______Nous______

Tu_____Vous ______

Il/Elle/On______Ils/Elles______

and must stick with the verb in all tenses

  • Reflexive verbs use ______as the helping verb in the past tense. There is no agreement in gender and number with the past participle when followed by a ______.

She wakes up______

She woke up______

We brush our teeth______

We brushed our teeth______

IRREGULAR PRESENT TENSE VERBS

  • The verbs ouvrir, offrir and souffrir are formed like regular ______verbs in the present tense.Know their meaning and past participles.

I open______We suffer______

IMPARFAIT

  • To find the STEM of verbs in the imparfait, take the ______form of the verb (regular OR irregular) in the present tense and drop the ______.
  • The only imparfait verb with an irregular stem is ______. The stem is ______.
  • The imparfait tense endings are (in subject pronoun order)

Je _____Nous______

Tu_____Vous_____

Il/Elle/On______Ils/Elles_____

Imparfait is used to express past actions that meet the following criteria(this is why it differs from the passé compose): (write at least 5)

1.

2.

IMPARFAIT CONTINUED

3.

4.

5

  • Passé compose indicates past actions that indicate the following: ( write at least 2)

1.

2.

  • What are 2 verbs that are almost always in the imparfait in the past tense?

______

We always went to the mountains______

One day I went to the store______

I was sad______

It was hot______

I was reading when the phone rang.______

We often had 2 dogs.______

  • How do you express the following?

never______always______

nothing______something______

no one______someone______

no longer ______not yet______

These negations go around the helping verb in the passé compose, except ne…personne, which goes around the whole thing.

I never eat broccoli______

I didn’t do anything______

I say nothing______

He didn’t see anyone______

I don’t eat meat anymore______

OBJECT PRONOUNS (order applies to sentences with multiple pronouns)

  • The object pronouns, in order, are

______before ______before ______before ______before ______

______

______

______

  • In English, they mean

______before ______before ______before ______before ______

______

______

______

  • The indirect object pronouns ______and ______replace people or animals preceded by the preposition à or any of its forms.
  • The pronoun ______replaces a noun preceded by the preposition ___de_ or an indefinite article, and may be followed by a number.
  • The pronoun ______replaces a noun of location or a non-person preceded by à
  • The object pronoun comes before the ______verb in the passé composé or, in the case of two verbs, before the ______.
  • In the negative, the object pronouns sticks with the ______.

I see him______

I saw him ______

I don’t want to talk to them______

I’ll take two of them.______

We went there yesterday.______

The give them to me.______

I want to give them to her______

Comparative adjectives (don’t forget adjective agreement and placement)

Plus…que, moins…que, ausso…que

Elle est ______Michele. (smarter)

Nous sommes ______vous. (as funny as)

Ils sont ______lui. (less interesting)

Je suis ______lui en maths. (better)

Comparative with nouns

Plus de (noun) que, moins de (noun) que, autant de (noun) que

Il y a ______voitures ______chevaux en ville. (more)

Il n’a pas ______argent ______que Bill Gates. (as much)

J’ai ______argent ______Bill Gates. (less)

Geographic prepositions

To

______(city)

______(city beginning with a vowel)

______(feminine country/masculine country beginning with a vowel)

______(masculine country)

____ Chine_____ Maroc ______Paris______Iran

From

______(city)

______(city beginning with a vowel)

______(feminine country/masculine country beginning with a vowel)

______(masculine country)

____ Chine_____ Maroc ______Paris______Iran

Vocabulary- prepositons of location and more

next toat the endd’abord

to the rightnext totous les 2 jours

to the lefton pendant que

towardsunderpendant

approximatelydevantau même temps

This/that/these/those

SingPlu

M / M
F / F

Which/What

SingPlur

M / M
F / F

All

SingPlur

M / M
F / F

Expressing duration ( most can translate as FOR)

Of future event – POUR

Of past event- PENDANT

Began at specific date in past continues to present- DEPUIS

Il y a / ça fait + amount of time+ que= IT’S BEEN ______THAT….

Il y a + amount of time = AGO

I woke up 2 hours ago. ______

I’ve lived in TN since 1995.. ______

I lived in France for 3 months______

I’ve been studying French for 2 years. ______