{"id":9985,"date":"2011-09-29T11:09:20","date_gmt":"2011-09-29T15:09:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/?p=9985"},"modified":"2014-06-16T20:36:19","modified_gmt":"2014-06-16T18:36:19","slug":"be-always-composed-with-le-passe-compose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/be-always-composed-with-le-passe-compose\/","title":{"rendered":"Le pass\u00e9 compos\u00e9 in French"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8220;<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><strong>Pass\u00e9 <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">compos\u00e9<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/span>&#8220;&#8230; Two distinct words when coupled together can saw a bit of confusion in the minds of many, many, helpless new French learners<strong>!<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong><em>Qu&#8217;\u00e0 cela ne tienne<\/em><\/strong> (nevermind), we&#8217;ll try in today&#8217;s post to shed some light on the different uses of this type of grammatical tense &#8211; so you won&#8217;t feel too &#8220;tense&#8221; about it anymore.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">In other words, be always composed with &#8220;<em><strong>le pass\u00e9 compos\u00e9<\/strong><\/em>&#8220;!<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Today&#8217;s linguists prefer actually to speak of &#8220;<strong><em>tiroir verbal<\/em><\/strong>&#8221; (literally &#8220;verbal drawer&#8221;) instead of <em><strong>temps grammatical<\/strong><\/em>, and what was called for a while &#8220;<em><strong>pr\u00e9t\u00e9rit ind\u00e9fini<\/strong><\/em>&#8221; would only later be rechristened &#8220;<em><strong>pass\u00e9 compos\u00e9<\/strong><\/em>.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">It is maybe this change in name that caused the grammatical function of the <em><strong>pass\u00e9 compos\u00e9<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0to become less and less clear -even to a great deal of native French speakers!- especially since there also exist other <em><strong>temps compos\u00e9s<\/strong><\/em> of <em><strong>le mode indicatif <\/strong><\/em>(the &#8220;<em>mode indicatif<\/em>&#8221; is known as &#8220;<strong>realis mood<\/strong>&#8221; in English.)<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Now, having said that, what&#8217;s really important to know about the use of\u00a0<em><strong>le pass\u00e9 compos\u00e9 <\/strong><\/em>before anything else is that it is\u00a0mainly for <em><strong>le discours <\/strong><\/em>(the speech)&#8212;in the grammatical sense of the word.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">It expresses events which are completely <em><strong>achev\u00e9s <\/strong><\/em>(finished)\u00a0at some point in the past with respect to the present.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">It is different from\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><strong>le pass\u00e9 simple<\/strong><\/em><\/span>, in which case <em><strong>le sujet <\/strong><\/em>(the subject)\u00a0is dissociated from the time of speech.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">With <em><strong>le pass\u00e9 compos\u00e9<\/strong><\/em>, the emphasis is on *<strong>the present effect or effects*\u00a0<\/strong>resulting from an action that took place and totally ceased in the past.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8220;<em><strong>S&#8217;il <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">avait \u00e9t\u00e9<\/span>\u00a0le jouet de son imagination, l&#8217;avenir ne tarderait pas \u00e0 le d\u00e9sabuser<\/strong><\/em>&#8221; (&#8220;If he had been the toy of her imagination, future would not take long before disenchanting him&#8221;, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/all-for-one-and-one-for-al-exandre-dumas\/\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Alexandre Dumas<\/span><\/a>, <em>L&#8217;\u00eele de feu<\/em>: Volume 1 &#8211; Page 146<\/strong>)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<ul style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em>&#8220;<strong>Elle <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">est n\u00e9e<\/span><\/strong><strong>\u00a0avec assez d&#8217;esprit<\/strong><\/em>&#8221; (&#8220;She was born with quite a mind of her own&#8221;, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/lhomme-au-masque-de-fer-iron-man-pour-les-ironiques\/\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Alexandre Dumas<\/span><\/a>, <em>M\u00e9moires d&#8217;une aveugle: Madame du Deffand<\/em>: Volume 1 &#8211; Page 258<\/strong>)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<ul style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8220;<em><strong>Elle \u00e9tait devenue si malheureuse que j&#8217;en <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">ai eu<\/span> piti\u00e9<\/strong><\/em>&#8221; (&#8220;She became so miserable that I felt pity for her&#8221;, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/all-for-one-and-one-for-al-exandre-dumas\/\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Alexandre Dumas<\/span><\/a>, <em>Le Chevalier de Maison-Rouge<\/em> &#8211; Page 77<\/strong>)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">But watch out my friends!<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The <em><strong>pass\u00e9 compos\u00e9<\/strong><\/em> can also be used for events at any determined point in the past, when it&#8217;s <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">not formally used<\/span>&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">For example, it is the <strong><em>pass\u00e9 simple <\/em><\/strong>which should be used in the sentence: &#8220;<em><strong>J&#8217;<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">ai \u00e9t<em><strong>\u00e9<\/strong><\/em><\/span> ravi, plus tard, quand elle m&#8217;a envoy<em><strong>\u00e9<\/strong><\/em> un<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/dites-le-avec-des-fleurs-say-it-with-flowers\/\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> joli bouquet de fleurs<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/em>.&#8221; 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