🇨🇵 Le Passé Composé or L'imparfait - How to decide which to use

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🇨🇵 Le Passé Composé or L'imparfait - How to decide which to use - French Grammar

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For intermediate and advanced learners of French, you want to know how and when to use the passé composé and the imparfait.
The past tenses in French can be complicated, and give us French learners a mal de tête !
When should you use the imparfait over the passé composé tense in French?
When should you choose the passé composé over the imparfect tense in French?
How do you decide which past tense in French to use?
In this video I talk about how to do just that, and also my tips for those of you who want to learn them both at once, as well as tricks to help you choose when you can't quite remember all the logic and rules I teach you in the main part of the video.
Trigger words:
Imparfait:
chaque semaine, mois, année - every week, month, year
le lundi, le mardi… - on Mondays, on Tuesdays…
le week-end - on the weekends
tous les jours - every day
le matin, le soir - in the mornings, in the evenings
toujours - always (in the past)
normalement, d’habitude - usually
en général, généralement - in general, generally
souvent - often
parfois, quelquefois - sometimes
de temps en temps - from time to time
rarement - rarely
autrefois - formerly
Passé composé:
une semaine, un mois, un an - one week, month, year
un week-end one weekend
lundi, mardi… - on Monday, on Tuesday
un jour - one day
un matin, un soir - one morning, one evening
toujours - always (and still now)
plusieurs fois - several times
une fois, deux fois… - once, twice…
soudain, soudainement - suddenly
tout à coup - all of a sudden
tout d’un coup - in one fell swoop
d’abord - first
ensuite, puis - next, then
enfin - finally
finalement - in the end
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@FrenchinPlainSight 4 жыл бұрын

Which tense do you struggle with most? Like me and got the Passé Composé down? Or do you use the Imparfait most of the time?

@kelli6904 4 жыл бұрын

I struggle most with the imparfait. I am far more comfortable with the passé composé , except i hesitate where to put the le, la, leur etc

@FrenchinPlainSight 4 жыл бұрын

I've just seen you answered my question in my email Kelli about the tool for sentences. I think that was you. I hope it will help you out.

@kelli6904 4 жыл бұрын

@@FrenchinPlainSight Hmmm don't think that was me ?

@FrenchinPlainSight 4 жыл бұрын

@@kelli6904 oops. Then I have at least 2 Kelli's who spell their name with an "I" and need help with pronouns!

@kelli6904 4 жыл бұрын

@@FrenchinPlainSight C'est vrai? Je ne souviens pas envoyer un email!

@Pirjeenn 3 ай бұрын

Thanks for the advice! Going back to learning passe compose.

@Furienna Жыл бұрын

It is very similar to the differences between for example "I was going" and "I went" in English.

@pareiei Жыл бұрын

THANK YOU SO MUCH THIS HELPED ALOT

@janetarrowsmith1077 3 жыл бұрын

I have just added this video to my favourite for all the information in the notes. I also particularly liked the lists of trigger words/expressions as I have used all of them and I have mixed up the past tenses when using them. Thank you I am enjoying my almost daily session with you. Sr. Janet

@FrenchinPlainSight 3 жыл бұрын

Glad it was helpful Janet!

@David-bt5ik 5 күн бұрын

Merci 😊

@TheperfectfrenchwithDylane 4 жыл бұрын

Très bonne vidéo Alex, tes explications sont très claires! Tu devrais faire une vidéo pour expliquer comment tu as réussi à prononcer le "R", je pense que cela peut être utile 😉

@FrenchinPlainSight 4 жыл бұрын

Merci Dylane. Ah tu n'es pas la première personne à suggérer cette vidéo. Je n'ai jamais dû travailler beaucoup dessus, donc je ne sais pas si je suis la bonne personne à faire celle-là ! Es-tu spécialisée dans la prononciation ?

@alexanebln8876 4 жыл бұрын

Super vidéo encore une fois, très utile, je vais la partager avec mes étudiants. Félicitations pour ta collaboration avec Italki 👏 j’adore te voir évoluer sur ta chaîne. Alexane

@FrenchinPlainSight 4 жыл бұрын

Youpi ! Ça m'a fait sourire ! Merci encore pour la motivation !

@EpicBoss020 4 жыл бұрын

I understand passé compose vs imparfait for the most part but things that I honestly struggle with are futur simple vs futur proche, and which phrases require subjonctive and which ones don’t

@FrenchinPlainSight 4 жыл бұрын

I know. It's a minefield ! Thankfully it's not as dangerous as Russian roulette.

@sicarter687 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you for the video and for the advice, this was very useful for me.

@FrenchinPlainSight 3 жыл бұрын

You're welcome Si!

@baddieha4170 4 жыл бұрын

Thank you for explaining it because I could never understand the passe compose. This video made me understand it very well 😁

@FrenchinPlainSight 4 жыл бұрын

Génial ! Any other grammar that's confusing?

@baddieha4170 4 жыл бұрын

@@FrenchinPlainSight um the future simple

@putty6692 4 жыл бұрын

This was a very helpful video! Merci beaucoup!

@FrenchinPlainSight 4 жыл бұрын

De rien !

@dianekeppel5071 4 жыл бұрын

Merci Alex. La différence entre le passé composé et l'imparfait est parfois une zone grise pour moi, mais je pense que votre vidéo est très claire. Je vais pratiquer pendant la semaine.

@FrenchinPlainSight 4 жыл бұрын

De rien Diane ! Merci pour ton commentaire. Et j'aime bien le terme "zone grise". Reviens ici pour montrer les résultats de ton travail !

@EasyFinnish 4 жыл бұрын

Vous vidéo est très intéressant et je le regarde. Je suis en train de passé composé. C'est très important aussi difficile pour moi. J'aime beaucoup votre vidéos. Merci beaucoup! Bonne journée!

@FrenchinPlainSight 4 жыл бұрын

Merci beaucoup comme d'habitude Jarno. Je te fais la correction si tu veux : Votre vidéo est très intéressante (feminine), et je la regarde. Je suis en train de travailler sur (peut-être) le passé composé. C'est très important mais aussi difficile pour moi. J'aime beaucoup vos vidéos (votre for singular, vos for plural).

@EasyFinnish 4 жыл бұрын

@@FrenchinPlainSight merci beaucoup vos corrections.

@timbinder1966 Жыл бұрын

Hi Alex, there is another use of the imparfait which is more literary but important to recognise. For example "en 1944 les Américains débarquaient en Normandie" Or another example: En 1939 M. Grévisse publiait le Précis de grammaire française. In spoken language one would expect the passé composé. I hope this is of interest to you. I'm a translator by profession and I see all sorts of intricate grammatical "oddities" in my work

@iliveinacrowdedhouse368 4 жыл бұрын

Your backgrounds are so cool

@FrenchinPlainSight 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much!

@phyllobolus 4 жыл бұрын

Je regardais votre vidéo quand j'ai compris comment utiliser le passé composé et l'imparfait.

@FrenchinPlainSight 4 жыл бұрын

Parfait Ivan !

@arshiverma457 4 жыл бұрын

Now my concept is clear,merci🤟🏻

@FrenchinPlainSight 4 жыл бұрын

Excellent! De rien !

@nicolasvalverdetorres3866 3 жыл бұрын

gracias cabeza

@meedimeerban6468 4 жыл бұрын

C’est super 👍

@schlachthof05 3 ай бұрын

1:34

@gowrimuguli5972 3 жыл бұрын

Sir, This video has helped me understand the concept thoroughly. Just a small clarification... Whenever there is 'toujours', aren't we supposed to use imparfait as it is written differently in the description box.. Please correct me if I am wrong!

@FrenchinPlainSight 3 жыл бұрын

Hello. I'm glad it helped. Please help me understand. You say that you think you should use imparfait when you use toujours. That is what it says in the description. Looking forward to your response.

@gowrimuguli5972 3 жыл бұрын

@@FrenchinPlainSight toujours - always (and still now) ; I meant this portion Sir. Thank you!

@FrenchinPlainSight 3 жыл бұрын

@@gowrimuguli5972 ah well that's different because you use the present tense. For past tense "toujours" you need imparfait because it was a habitual action that has now finished.

@gowrimuguli5972 3 жыл бұрын

@@FrenchinPlainSight Will keep that in mind! Thanks a lot and I will continue to watch your videos to understand this beautiful language in a better manner:)

@anish7686 3 жыл бұрын

Rge video starts at 1:28

@Kitiwake 2 жыл бұрын

I've been studying french a while now and no one has explained what these are until now.

@FrenchinPlainSight 2 жыл бұрын

Ah everyone gets to them in their own time :)

@slicksalmon6948 2 жыл бұрын

Sufficiently obscure that you have to wonder why the distinction between the two tenses would have evolved. It appears to be grammar complexity without purpose.

@Furienna Жыл бұрын

It is very similar to the differences between for example "I was going" and "I went" in English.

@slicksalmon6948 Жыл бұрын

@@Furienna Some grammarians describe it as a difference between “I went” and “I am gone”. It’s a distinction that has dropped out of modern English.