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РІР‚В¦and, a last one with Р“Р„tre to wrap up our introduction to the plus-que-parfait: He would have met fewer idiots if he had gone to school a little longer to learn to write :-)))))Р”В¬lick here if youРІР‚в„ўd like to read more about the French plus-que-parfait. HereРІР‚в„ўs another one with the verb Р“Р„tre as the imperfect verb (I know, itРІР‚в„ўs weird that the perfect is marked with a verb that we call РІР‚Сљimperfect,РІР‚Сњ but thatРІР‚в„ўs language for youРІР‚вЂњitРІР‚в„ўs never logical in the ways that one would think it should be): I dreamt that I met for real and that there was a play Aventures that we had gone to see. More negation: Remember the time when Louis almost kissed Harry because he hadnРІР‚в„ўt seen the camera. HereРІР‚в„ўs one with negation (itРІР‚в„ўs always important to think about negation early when youРІР‚в„ўre trying to figure out a verbal system): The moral of the story of Chloe Florin, itРІР‚в„ўs that even your closest friends can betray you one day. At the same time, no one had noticed that he had arrivedРІР‚В¦. (A little coquille (typo) there: it should be on vient, not on viens.) But why has Lassana Bathily who had aided the hostages of the Hypercasher been the only hero РІР‚СљforgottenРІР‚Сњ by the Legion of Honor 2015?Р”Р„ nice one, with two examplesРІР‚вЂњone with avait, and one with Р“В©tait: El-Shaarawy left Monaco. So, hereРІР‚в„ўs a straightforward example: Shit, someone just told me that I had vomited yesterdayРІР‚В¦. The past participle could be any verb, but the imperfect is always going to be either avoir or Р“Р„tre, according to the same rules by which you would select one or the other for the passР“В© composР“В©. We looked at the imperfect in a recent post, so no need to go into that any further right now. So, on to how to form the plus-que-parfait in French. Prior to those events that weРІР‚в„ўre talking about in the past tense, the vomiting had been completedРІР‚вЂњin other words, a perfect that occurred prior toРІР‚вЂњin other words, in the РІР‚Сљpast tenseРІР‚Сњ with reference toРІР‚вЂњsomething else that was in the past itself. WeРІР‚в„ўve got two past-tense verbs in that sentence: came, and found. Why this is the past perfect: itРІР‚в„ўs a perfectРІР‚вЂњa completed actionРІР‚вЂњthat is in the past tense with respect to something else. For example: I had vomited twice already before my m other came in and found me with my head in the toilet. If we wanted to express that the vomiting had been completed even before some other action, then we would use the past perfect: I had vomited. For example, while the past tense (a number of past tenses and aspects, actually) in English could be expressed as I vomited, the perfect would be I have vomited. To expand on that a bit: the perfect, in grammatical terms, is used (in English, at any rate) to refer to an action that is completed. The word derives from the Latin plus quam perfectum, РІР‚Сљmore than perfectРІР‚Сњ РІР‚вЂњ the Latin perfect refers to something that occurred in the past, while the pluperfect refers to something that occurred РІР‚СљmoreРІР‚Сњ (further) in the past than the perfect. I find it easier to do that if I understand why a tense is called what itРІР‚в„ўs called, so letРІР‚в„ўs look at the Wikipedia page on the plus-que-parfait: If you want to talk about any of the compound tenses with your French teacher, youРІР‚в„ўre going to need to be able to remember their names. ItРІР‚в„ўs what we call a compound tense (see this post for an introduction to compound tenses and what makes them interesting).

(More on vomiting below.) In English, we call it the past perfect. This is the French tense (technically, itРІР‚в„ўs an aspect, but IРІР‚в„ўll try to leave the technical stuff out of this) that corresponds to things like I had vomited in English.

Picture source:, who put it together from images on the excellent TexРІР‚в„ўs French Grammar web site, at. The passР“В© composР“В©, imparfait, and plus-que-parfait contrasted.

Imparfait passe compose plus que parfait