Préparés
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Damien
Kwiziq community member
27/03/18
Chris
Kwiziq community member
27/03/18
Hi Damien,
you are correct in that the past participle does not match the COD in the case of avoir
BUT (and there always is a but!)
except for the case when the COD precedes the particple, in which case it IS matched. Let's look at your example:
Nous les avons préparés. --"les" is the COD and precedes the participle ("préparés"). Since "les" is plural (and apparently not all female), the participle needs to take this into account --> "preparés".
-- Chris (not a anative speaker).
Damien
Kwiziq community member
27/03/18
Chris
Kwiziq community member
27/03/18
COD = Complément d'objet direct.
Yes, "direct object pronoun" is exactly what COD means.
-- Chris.

Aurélie
Kwiziq language super star
27/03/18
Bonjour Damien and Chris !
Here is the link to our lesson on past participle agreement with the direct object pronoun with auxiliary avoir :
Bonne journée !
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Damien
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27 March 2018
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Préparés
This question relates to:
French lesson "Expressing 'myself, etc...' with stress pronouns and 'même'"