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With the subject: The past participle only agrees with the subject of the sentence when the auxiliary (auxiliaire in French) is the verb ‘être’. When the auxiliary ‘avoir’ is used, the past participle nev...

This stands for Preceeding Direct Object, and is a grammatical term. Basically, you must always agree a past participle if there is a direct object that comes before it in the sentence. For example, 'il ...

En is a tricky one! This has several meanings, the most common being as follows; it can mean 'in' when referring to a country or a mode of transport, it can mean 'while' or 'by' when used with a present p...

The key to impressing the examiner in any speaking test is showing a good range; make sure you are demonstrating knowledge of the past, present, and future tense. Even if you only show one example of each...

The simplest way to think of these prepositions is to think that 'y' refers to 'à' and 'en' refers to 'de'. Therefore if you want to say 'Je vais à Paris' you would then say 'J'y vais'.

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