Direct Object Agreement

Marlon P.A1Kwiziq community member

Direct Object Agreement

In the first sentence "... dont je vous ai parlés ...", why does parlés have an S at the end? There is no agreement required here, is there?

This question relates to:French interactive reading exercise "Organiser des rénovations à la maison (1ere partie)"

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Jim J.C1 Kwiziq Q&A super contributor

Bonjour Marlon,

The verb parler takes a preposition either à or de depending on the context therefore "vous" will be an indirect object pronoun.

That suggests that rénovations is the direct object of this sentence and is appearing in this case before the verb avoir and that grammar aspect requires the past participle of parler to agree with des rénovations (feminine plural).

Bonne continuation

Jim

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Direct Object Agreement

In the first sentence "... dont je vous ai parlés ...", why does parlés have an S at the end? There is no agreement required here, is there?

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