L'histoire de la France jusqu'en 1700.
EditG: Interrogative Pronouns
EditG: Passé Simple of Regular Verbs
Unlike English, there is a literary past tense, used when writing formally. This past tense is the
passé simple. It is relatively simple to predict when to use this tense: for every occurrence of the
passé composé in conversational French, one simply uses the
passé simple in literary French. Note that the passé simple is not a composed tense, and therefore does not have an auxiliary verb like the passé composé does.
EditFormation
To conjugate in this tense, one finds the stem and appends the following, as according to the table:
The Simple Past | Le passé simple>| Subject | Ending | Conjugated Verb | English |
|---|
| Je | -ai | Je dansai. | I danced. |
| Tu | -as | Tu dansas. | You danced. |
| Il | -a | Il dansa. | He danced. |
| Nous | -âmes | Nous dansâmes. | We danced |
| Vous | -âtes | Vous dansâtes. | You danced. |
| Ils | -èrent | Ils dansèrent. | They danced. |
EditRegular Normally-Irregular Verbs
The following verbs are irregular in the present indicative, but are regular in their passé simple stems.
| Infinitive | Stem | Je... |
|---|
| -ir verbs |
|---|
| dormir | dorm | dormis |
|---|
| partir | part | partis |
|---|
| sentir | sent | sentis |
|---|
| servir | serv | servis |
|---|
| sortir | sort | sortis |
|---|
| -rir Verbs |
|---|
| couvrir | couvr | couvris |
|---|
| découvrir | découvr | découvris |
|---|
| offrir | offr | offris |
|---|
| ouvrir | ouvr | ouvris |
|---|
| souffrir | souffr | souffris |
|---|
| -re Verbs |
|---|
| combattre | combatt | combattis |
|---|
| rompre | romp | rompis |
|---|
| suivre | suiv | suivis |
|---|
Exercises
Complétez les phrases suivantes en conjuguant les verbes au passé simple:
1. J'
_ (entrer) dans le tour.
2. Tout d'un coup, mon ami
(tomber).
3. Nous _ (monter) l'éscalier.
4. Je
_ (dire) aux professeurs qu'il
_ (regarder) la télé.
5. Ils t'_ (offrir) le plat, et tu le
___ (laisser) tomber.
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