To form questions by inverting in Passé composé when the subject is a subject pronoun, you follow this order:
(question word) + auxiliary avoir/être + hyphen + je/tu/il/elle/on/nous/vous/ils/elles + past participle
Il est allé au cinéma -> Est-il allé au cinéma?
He went to the cinema -> Did he go to the cinema?
Here are more examples:
ATTENTION:
For pronouns il/elle/on + avoir, you need to add a -t- between avoir (= a) and the pronoun, to ease the pronunciation:
See also Forming inverted questions in Le Présent (except il, elle, on forms)
Forming inverted questions in Le Présent with il, elle, on
but also Forming inverted questions with nouns in Le Passé Composé (conversational past)
and Forming inverted questions with reflexive verbs in Le Passé Composé
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