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passé composé
[ pah-sey kawn-poh-zey ]
noun
, French.
- 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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