What is the perfect tense
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What is the perfect tense
This question relates to:French lesson "Conjugate venir, tenir and derivatives in Le Présent (present tense)"
Asked 3 years ago
LauraKwiziq language super star
Bonjour Lyn,
There isn't one perfect tense - "perfect" describes several tenses: present perfect, past perfect, future perfect, etc.
Grammatically, it means "complete" in contrast to the imperfect which is incomplete.
The past perfect is sometimes referred to as the perfect tense, I think in contrast to another past tense known as imparfait, imperfect. The past perfect is also known as le passé composé.
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