Participles
Words formed from a verb and used as an adjective or a noun

Present Participles
En and present participle
Cause and occasion: en + present participle (en vieillissant, je commence à comprendre)

Past Participles
Past participles inding in -i, -is, it and -rt Past participles inding in -i, -is, it and -rt
Past participles ending in -u (do not reflect or correspond to a single category of infinitives)
Past participles ending in -é (correspond to infinitives ending in -er)

Agreement of Past Participles
-Agreement with preceding direct objects (reflexive verbs conjugated with avoir)
-Agreement with subjects (nonrelexive verbs conjugated with être)

determine past participle of verb for compound tenses
(passé composé, the pluperfect , the past conditional)

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