Jo tell me what'd you do yesterday?
Girl what did I do yesterday? I went running, I went to the gym
I went shopping, I clipped my toenails, I made a smoothie
I ate some cereal , I went to the gym again, I lay down I took a nap
Then I woke up, I read crush magazine
And then I freakin waxed my mustache
and then i went on instagram the I tagged myself in some pictures then I stalked my own instagram
Then I stalked YOUR instagram, then I stalked everybodys' instagram
I drank some coffee, I made some more coffee, then i made a sandwich
And then I made a sandwich and then I got a sandwich at the bodega
And then I got into an argument at the bodega, with the sandwich guy
And then, and then, I ended my day
And that's it
Here is the passé composé -- So maybe you're studying french
and you've reached the Passé Composé, which probably stresses you out
But this is like, the passé composé you're gonna use that baby all the time
You need it for everything, if you're describing something that happened in the past, you're gonna need the past
But what is it?
The Passé Composé
it's a past tense
how I always think of it,
it's a staccato action, something that you did
like that example that we just had
[Rewind Jo's day]
Yeah you wanna know what's the Passé Composé
That's the Passé Composé in English
Ok, but we need to tell you how to do it in French
And why do you need to use it in French
Ok, first off, if you wanna speak a language fluently
You gotta learn the past tense. And the first step to the French past tenses
Is the Passé Composé
This is like the basic step that sounds a little complicated but we're gonna break it down
The Passé Composé is the -ED ending
So, I opened, I closed, I learned, I managed
That's the Passé Composé
It's an action that was completed like
you're not gonna do it again
It already happened
And you're done with it so it's in the past
And it's like a 1 time thing
and it didn't continue over in the course of your time
EXACTLY! Kinda like those things you did yesterday
Do I need to say it again?
Yes, I said it
GEt it? Like I said it
Like the Passé Composé, you got it. It's like you can't prevent not using the Passé Composé
You just used it
OK, but how do you form the Passé Composé, Damon and Jo?
The most important thing you need to know
Is how do you form this Damon?
Can't dance
OK, the Passé Composé means the composed past
Basically you have 2 parts, you have AVOIR
plus the Participe Passé
What's the Participe Passé?
It's the past participle, DUH!
What's the past participle? We're gon' get there
But for now, JO! AVOIR
What do we have here, Ladies and Gentlemen?
We get AVOIR which means to have
And you conjugate it in the present tense
As the first part of your Passé Composé formation
WHY?
Because these auxiliary
Think of like auxiliary cord. You know you wanna play some music. You need to plug your phone into the cord
To the music to come out
You need to plug this conjugation
into your Passé Composé formation to the Passé Composé to happen, DAMON?
HA, thanks JO
OK, so now we have AVOIR we need to do the Participe Passé
What are the Participe Passé?
In English it would be like, I have SUNG
SUNG is the Participe Passé
I have SPOKEN. SPOKEN is the Participe Passé
How you do it in French?
It's pretty easy
-ER verbs take off ER add É
-IR verbs take off IR add an I
-RE verbs take off RE add an U
In another way you need to drop that ER, drop that IR, drop that RE
Ok, Jo any ER verb
I'mma go with MANGER
So what do we do? We take off the ER we look at our fancy shanty chart
And we add an É and voilà
You have the Participe Passé you have your AVOIR you have your Participe Passé
And now you can finally say what you've been wanting to say
You can say I have eaten
You can say I did eat. You can say I ate
How to do it?
J'ai mangé! PANG
Take a seat
Ok, so now we gotta go on with the IR verbs. Give me an IR verb
Choisir
You know why I like Choisir?
Because I'm all about that freedom of choice especially for my independent ladies out there.
So let me show you how it's done so hold on
Choisir in the Infinitive - CHOISIR
What you do? You're gon' drop that IR
And then you're gonna look in your key chart. Get the I. Because that's the ending of IR verbs
So, CHOISI is your Participe Passé
Vous avez choisi
Because y'all chose to watch this video
Don't hate it if you don't like it
But we're trying to help you. So, it's gonna be
Vous avez choisi, voila
Y'all chose, y'all have chosen, y'all did chose
Alright if it's RE verbs like: VENDRE
That's why we're trying to make that money
This is how you do it
V-E-N-D-R-E You drop that RE
Go to your fancy chart. You have "U"
"U" becomes right here. So for example: JO
She just sold her computer
So: Elle a vendu son ordinateur
Tu as vendu ton ordinateur
Make that money
DONE
Alors, Jo qu'est-ce que tu as fait hier? FAIRE - irregular verb!
BAh, j'ai fait plein de choses
J'ai fini mes travails, j'ai parlé avec ma mère, j'ai mangé du chocolat, j'ai acheté un baison, j'ai fini mon travail
J'ai chosi un film, j'ai regardé Netflix, j'ai stalké des gens sur Instargram, j'ai ouvert cette boîte de chocolat,
et j'ai pris le metro, j'ai écrit un blog, j'ai publié une video, j'ai étudié lé langues, j'ai bu de l'eau, j'ai fait du sport
EUYhhhh lalalala
You're getting in it you can't do that because we haven't gotten there
Also we need you to know
Is that AVOIR is not the only auxiliary verb
Oh, excuse me there are 17 more verbs that conjugate with être
It gets a lil' crazy but anyway. If you liked this video if you learned something from this video
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