The form of the verb that goes with “have,” the past participle, can trip up a lot of English-language users. June Casagrande shows us where to find the right word in the dictionary.

Even more important than getting past participles “right” is knowing how to make good choices. Here’s a quick overview of past participles and how to look them up.

Indeed, languages with three forms for present, past and participle have a way of trying to make two things out of three. Sometimes they marginalize the past form in favor of the participle.

The pluperfect tense with être is used with the MR R VANS TRAMPED verbs (as seen in the perfect tense with être.) Also you need to make sure the past participle agrees with the subject pronoun ...