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Ready to practise your French past tense? In this crossword, you’ll work with the passé composé — the most common way to talk about completed actions in French. You’ll practise choosing the right auxiliary verb (avoir or être) and forming past participles correctly. Bonne chance!
Grid
Fill in the grid: pick a square, read the clue and type your answer.
Clues
Across
- 3. Relating to time in grammar
- 7. Relating to reflexive verbs
- 8. Twilight, dusk at day's end
- 10. Rules governing a language
- 11. Expressing a completed action
- 12. Legal file or case folder
Down
- 1. Completed past action
- 2. Soon
- 3. Always
- 4. System of verb forms in a language
- 5. Helper verb used to form compound tenses
- 6. Base form of a verb
- 9. Sometimes
Answers
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Across
- 3. Relating to time in grammar → temporel
- 7. Relating to reflexive verbs → pronominal
- 8. Twilight, dusk at day's end → crepuscule
- 10. Rules governing a language → grammaire
- 11. Expressing a completed action → completif
- 12. Legal file or case folder → dossier
Down
- 1. Completed past action → accompli
- 2. Soon → bientot
- 3. Always → toujours
- 4. System of verb forms in a language → conjugaison
- 5. Helper verb used to form compound tenses → auxiliaire
- 6. Base form of a verb → infinitif
- 9. Sometimes → parfois
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