passé composé

American

[pah-say kawn-poh-zay] / pɑ seɪ kɔ̃ poʊˈzeɪ /

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.

Literally, “compound past”

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