Forming the perfect tense with tre

The perfect tense is used to talk about something that happened in the past. It's an action that is completely finished. Some verbs take tre to form the perfect tense. You need two parts to form the perfect tense with tre: the present tense of tre the past participle of the main verb

Agreement
When you form the perfect tense with tre, the past participle agrees with the subject of the verb (the person doing the action): add -e to the past participle for feminine singular --> alle add -s for masculine plural --> alls add -es for feminine plural --> alles So the perfect tense of aller (to go) is: je suis all(e) tu es all(e) il est all elle est alle on est all(e)(s) nous sommes all(e)s vous tes all(e)(s) ils sont alls elles sont alles

Verbs that take tre in the perfect tense

A limited number of verbs take tre. Here is the list of the verbs used with tre in the perfect tense. Try to memorise them as the MRS VANDERTRAMP verbs: Monter --> mont (went up) Retourner --> retourn (returned) Sortir --> sorti (went out) Venir --> venu (came) Arriver --> arriv (arrived) Natre --> n (was born) Descendre --> descendu (went down) Entrer --> entr (entered) Rester --> rest (stayed) Tomber --> tomb (fell) Rentrer --> rentr (went back in) Aller --> all (went)

Mourir --> mort (died) Partir --> parti (left)