The passé composé is the most important past tense in French. It corresponds to the English simple past (I did, I saw …) or sometimes the present perfect (I have done, I have seen …).
The passé composé talks about actions that were completed in the past and emphasises their results or consequences in the present.
In spoken language, the passé composé is always used instead of the passé simple. We form the passé composé using the auxiliary verbs avoir or être followed by the past participle (le participe passé) of the verb.
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