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passé composé

[ pah-sey kawn-poh-zey ]

noun

, French.
  1. a grammatical construction of French consisting of the present tense of an auxiliary, either avoir or être, followed by a past participle and corresponding in function to both the English present perfect and the English simple past tenses.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of passé composé1

Literally, “compound past”

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