Past Participle List - Today’s French
Listes de participes passés
Memorizing past participles is a long journey.
- Good news: past participles don’t change with the conjugation.
- Other good news: past participles are used in many French tenses, not just the passé composé.
- Slight damper: past participles past participles are all over the place, there is no logic to how they are organized, and they have to be memorized.
Let’s start with only 12 verbs
- accueillir …. accueilli …. to welcome …. avoir
- aimer …. aimé …. to like, to love …. avoir
- apprendre …. appris …. to learn …. avoir
- avoir …. eu …. to have …. avoir
- être …. été …. to be …. avoir
- faire …. fait …. to make, to do …. avoir
- mettre …. mis …. to put, to put on …. avoir
- partir …. parti …. to leave …. être
- prendre …. pris …. to take …. avoir
- sortir …. sorti …. to go out, to exit
- voir …. vu …. to see …. avoir
- vouloir …. voulu …. to want …. avoir
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