Impératif passé - Actif (Basic Format)
This Command-form verb tense can only be with:
- the 2nd person singular (tu),
- the 1st person plural (nous), and
- the 2nd person plural (vous).
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12A Impératif passé – actif (Basic format)[with 'avoir'] "avoir"(Impératif présent) + verbe principal (p.p.) (aie, ayons, ayez) + verbe principal (p.p.) |
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IMPORTANT: For the Impératif passé with être, see further below. |
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12A Examples: [With 'avoir'] Example Set 1 (masculin / féminin – singulier / pluriel)
Aie fini avant demain! (Tu) Be finished before tomorrow! Have (it) finished before tommorrow!
Ayons fini avant demain! (Nous) Let's be finished before tomorrow! Let's have (it) finished before tommorrow!
Ayez fini avant demain! (Vous) Be finished before tomorrow! Have (it/something) finished before tommorrow! |
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12A Impératif passé – actif (Basic format)[with 'être'] "être"(Impératif présent) + verbe principal (p.p.)(e.s.es) (from the Secret Travel Club – Appendix B) (sois, soyons, soyez) + verbe principal (p.p.)(e.s.es) (from the Secret Travel Club) |
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IMPORTANT: For the Impératif passé with avoir, see further above. |
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12A (continued) Examples: [With 'être'] Example Set 2 (masculin / féminin – singulier / pluriel)
Sois parti(e) avant midi! (Tu) Be gone before noon!
Soyons parti(e)s avant midi! (Nous) Let's be gone before noon!
Soyez parti(e)(s) avant midi! (Vous) Be gone before noon! |