Passé ComposéThe everyday past tense, and the rule for choosing avoir or être.Languagesauxiliary (avoir or être) in the present, plus the pastparticiple.j'ai mangé · je suis allé(e)Regular -erparler → parléj'ai parléRegular -irfinir → finij'ai finiRegular -revendre → venduj'ai venduTHE COMMON MISTAKEJe suis mangéJ'ai mangéÊtre is only for the sixteen movement verbs and all reflexives. Everything elsetakes avoir.With être, the participle agrees with the subject: elle est allée, ils sontallés, elles sont allées.Passé Composélearnposters.com
Passé Composé — printable languages wall chart from LearnPosters. Free vector PDF, US Letter and A4.

What’s on the Passé Composé poster

The rule, 3 worked examples, and the mistake everyone makes.

With être, the participle agrees with the subject: elle est allée, ils sont allés, elles sont allées.

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What’s on the Passé Composé poster?
The rule, 3 worked examples, and the mistake everyone makes. auxiliary (avoir or être) in the present, plus the past participle.; j'ai mangé · je suis allé(e); Regular -er = parler → parlé; Regular -ir = finir → fini; Regular -re = vendre → vendu; Common mistake: Je suis mangé → J'ai mangé. With être, the participle agrees with the subject: elle est allée, ils sont allés, elles sont allées.
Who is the Passé Composé poster for?
Passé Composé belongs to the Languages section rather than to a school year, because languages is not something one grade owns. Anyone learning french can pin it up — a beginner, a student mid-course, or someone revising years later.
When should you use the Passé Composé poster?
Sixteen verbs take être. Everything else takes avoir — including most verbs you will meet. A wall chart earns its place by being glanceable from where the work is happening, so Passé Composé belongs on the wall where that languages work actually happens, within glancing distance, rather than filed away.
What other posters go with Passé Composé?
Adjective Placement, Articles and Avoir & Être sit alongside Passé Composé in the Languages section. Printed together they make a wall rather than a single sheet, which is how a reference set actually gets used.Adjective PlacementArticlesAvoir & Être
Is the Passé Composé poster free to download and print?
Yes. Passé Composé downloads as a free PDF with no account, no email and no watermark, like everything else in the Languages section. Print as many copies as you like for a home, a classroom, a library or a tutoring group; reselling the file is the only thing the licence rules out.Read the licence
What size does the Passé Composé poster print at?
Passé Composé is a vector PDF laid out for US Letter, and prints on A4 with Fit to page — the same file, no separate download. Because every mark on it is drawn rather than photographed, it stays sharp enlarged to A3, A2 or A1 at a copy shop. Colour carries emphasis only, so a greyscale print of Passé Composé loses nothing.Printing guide

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