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The term 'passe compose' means composed past [tense]. The tense is formed with an auxiliary verb, which is one of the six present indicative forms of the verb 'etre' ['to be'] or 'avoir' ['to have']. The auxiliary is combined with the past participle form of the main verb. For example, 'parler' means 'to speak'. Its past participle is 'parle'. So 'I did speak, have spoken, spoke' is translated as 'j'ai parle', with the personal pronoun 'je'* meaning 'I'. *The letter 'e' is dropped in front of a word that begins with a vowel or an unaspirated 'h'.

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