Imparfait vs Passé Composé / Imperfect vs Present Perfect French

[mein2d]

Helped thanks!

[OHMAHJENNY]

big help! merci! :)

[sonuheman]

bon

[IntoDust24]

This may seem like a stupid question but I am new at this...In regards to «...visité...» as in «...j'étais visité...» The Passé Composé is it always le participe passé or are they different?

[lsfrench]

@IntoDust24 yes, but the meaning is different, j'étais visité is I was visited by...

[voirpourcroire]

@lsfrench Bonjour, la vidéo explique très bien! Une petite chose, nous visitons une ville, un musée, ... mais nous "rendons visite à" .. une personne. I would say

"Quand j'étais jeune, je rendais visite à ma grand-mère". Sinon, j'aime bien !

[lsfrench]

@voirpourcroire it is the same, look at my website for this lesson to have more info about visiter and rendre visite. thank you!

[voirpourcroire]

@lsfrench Bonjour, vous pouvez me répondre en français, je suis prof de français et les étudiants (adultes) aiment bien vos vidéos. Cependant, dans nos livres (qui viennent de France (je suis au Québec), on nous présente la distinction, et , de plus, surtout avec les anglophones qui "visit" les personnes ça complique un peu les chose mais oh, ça va, pas de soucis ... merci encore de nous aider.

[lsfrench]

@voirpourcroire bonjour, c'est vrai c'est une tendance mais ça reste français, je visite mes parents, le médecin visite ses patients on peut l'utiliser aussi avec des personnes, même si certains préfèrent rendre visite, à bientôt, mais l'explication est sur frenchspanishonline

[nooraalam2012]

Good

[fairyatluvland]

great video, but isn't "I visited her several times" habitual?

[lsfrench]

@fairyatluvland you are right but because of the expression "several times" we don't insist on the duration.

[Tpineapples]

YES ican finally pass this test!

[lsfrench]

@Tpineapples Great!

[AlmightyHope]

This was so helpful! Mecri!

[kokowitsch]

c'est génial.

i am german and i am lerning both languages at school.

so, i can practice my knowledge twice !

:)

[MystyXsoul]

This is amazing!

Very unique explanation, Thanks!

[Irina1972able]

Grand! Merci beaucoup, it was really-really helpful! Thanks

[lsfrench]

@Irina1972able Merci!

[MrJucery]

lol i learned more in 5 min from you then 1 year in french 3-4 , thanks!!

[lsfrench]

@MrJucery Thank you!

[AfterFXimus]

Thanks!



[ElSupremo61]

This was amazing, and so helpful! Thank you so much!!!

[lsfrench]

@ElSupremo61 Merci! more on my website!

[ThreeKhalilVideo]

Thanck u :)

[dannysuru]

I FINALLY UNDERSTAND .....HALLELUJAH!

[dannysuru]

Just what I always mess up when trying to speak French

Merci beaucoup !

[lsfrench]

@dannysuru thank you, more on my website with exercises.

[heeteepee]

MERCI BEAUCOUP. IM USING THIS for my writing assessment for tomorrow!!

[lsfrench]

@heeteepee Great!!!!

[katracho941]

I have an exam in 1 hour thank you very much!!!

[lsfrench]

@katracho941 you are welcome!

[NadaAhmedHamed]

thank you very much , that was really helpful :)

[lsfrench]

@NadaAhmedHamed you are welcome!

[MexicanNoEnglishFtw]

is it Ils ont prendu des photos ou ils prenaient des photos?

[lsfrench]

@MexicanNoEnglishFtw ils ont PRIS des photos or ils prenaient, both are correct it depends what you want to express

[LillyLuvsYoo]

Merci! :D This has helped me a lot. :)

[lsfrench]

@LillyLuvsYoo de rien, more on my website, Pascal

[kvmusic]

Sorry to be a downer but you can't ever say "J'ai visité ma grand-mère" or "Je visitais ma grand-mère" in French. It's a mistake.

You have to say "J'ai rendu visite à ma grand-mère" or "Je rendais visite à ma grand-mère".

Visiter un endroit.

Rendre visite à une personne.

[lsfrench]

@kvmusic you are not a downer, you are just not French and j'ai visité ma grand-mère is perfect French, je suis allé voir ma grand-mère too and finally J'ai rendu visite à ma grand-mère. so I HAVE not To say only j'ai rendu visite...

[kvmusic]

@lsfrench,

I may not be French but I AM a native French speaker. I am a French speaking Belgian. And by the way I teach French here in the States. You on the other hand must not be a native French speaker because if you were you would never say, "j'ai visité ma grand-mère."

[lsfrench]

@kvmusic you are funny, I am happy to be French and to say j'ai visité ma grand-mère (perfect French) like j'ai rendu visite à, may I add that my grand ma is a prisoner dying in a convent! happy now?

[kvmusic]

@lsfrench,

tu es têtu et j'en ai fini avec toi. continue à mal parler si ça t'amuse, bon vent.

[lsfrench]

@kvmusic c'est la langue française qui est têtue, pas moi, ce que je dis est correct depuis le début, celui qui est têtu et qui ne veut rien n'accepter c'est toi!

[kvmusic]

@lsfrench

2. non, c'est bien toi qui est têtu. personne, tu m'entends, absolument PERSONNE ne dit "visiter une ami". si tu étais francophone, tu le saurais. je m'en fous que tu aies lu dans un bouquin qu'on pouvait le dire. c'est inusité. ça ne se dit pas.

"qui ne veut rien N'accepter" ==> qui ne veut rien accepter

[kvmusic]

@lsfrench

i had said i was done with you but i'll say two more things.

1. you think you are so smart (ass) with your "dying grand-mother who is in jail" story. but you missed the point completely. in that case you would still use "rendre visite" because of who she is, the nature of the relationship. very different from a doctor who is visiting patients or a minister who visits a bunch of prisoners.

[lsfrench]

@kvmusic thank you for insulting me because you can't prove you are right, as I said both are possible with the same meaning, you disagree? it is your problem! you want to insult me? you prove you are wrong!

[kvmusic]

@lsfrench

wow, you just made up another rule! amazing!

[lsfrench]

and you should follow the link bellow the video, you will find more explanations

[kvmusic]

@lsfrench,

No, you should never say "visiter quelqu'un". Maybe 150 years ago but not anymore.

The only exceptions are: visiter un prisonnier, un mourant, un moine ou une sœur.

[lsfrench]

@mia4224 tell me how?

[polllopolll]

@lsfrench Where are you from??



[lsfrench]

@ashleyleyanne No mistake both are correct with people and things, we say rendre visite!

[plangmin]

merci beaucoup

[lsfrench]

@plangmin de rien!

[markvanalphen]

Thanks! Great pronunciation as well. Chapeau :).

[lsfrench]

@markvanalphen merci! Pascal

[Sariccia13]

gracias.

[lsfrench]

@Sariccia13 de nada espero ofrecer mas lecciones en español pronto

[blackstrype]

Wow, incredibly useful.

[lucisdopeful]

thank you very much!

[Nokiaa888]

"il etait....4 o clock" LOL

thx that was quite helpful

last minute studying for a test

[isabellefleuur]

Please help! im writing a paper about visiting paris. i'm sayingthat usually, i ate simpler food. how do i say this? passe compose or imparfait?

[lsfrench]

@isabellefleuur with my lesson you shouldnot have any doubt, it is past and finished and not related to another event, so passé composé of course: je n'ai pas aimé or j'ai détesté

[khrisytube]

@lsfrench But isabellefleuur said that "usually, i ate simpler food." isn't that a repeated past action? I thought for a repeated action, you use the inparfait.

[lsfrench]

@khrisytube hi, thank you for your comment, I read it too quick and you are right, because of the word "usually" we use the imparfait here, habituellement, je détestais ..., thanks again!

[ivortheengine74]

C'est fantastique! Merci beaucoup. Mes profresseurs (qui sont francaises!) ne peuvent expliquer pas comme ca!

[JAKmousetrap]

Merci! C'étaient très bien.

[isabelcarr]

i have a french test on exactly this tomorrow... this video helped thanks (: my french teacher sucks she doesnt even give us notes.

[lsfrench]

@isabelcarr please tell me if you passed you test!

[isabelcarr]

@lsfrench i passed!! i got a B, i would of got an A but there was some vocab words i didnt study :p but thank you for this video!

[isabelcarr]

@isabelcarr but imparfait and passe are still kind of confusing for me :s

[lsfrench]

@isabelcarr Great, do you have a list of vocabulary you needed for your exam?

[shervin07]

@isabelcarr what school do you go to?

[Trianglesroklol]

Oh my gosh thank you soo much. I was so lost when we were doing this, and this helped me understand. Thank you!! :)

[xoxoHeavensDevil]

Thank you :) it was really helpful...I'm very confused about these tenses! :) greetings form czech

[darius41]

Thank you for posting this video! very helpful for my test tomoro, lol

[Arc520]

no the grade F

[lsfrench]

F like the first letter of French??

[lsfrench]

F because it is the first letter of French????

[Arc520]

why is french soooo fucking hard !!!! lmao i have a F in french

[615shannon]

Thank you very much for the post, helped me very much for my upcomming exam tomorrow!!

:)

[lsfrench]

thank you! Pascal

[TheAngryRuslan]

This was so much more helpful than my teacher's notes!

[natsuhiboshi100]

im in french II, and this video est tres bien.

[Arc520]

@natsuhiboshi100 me 2

[samuel1abarza]

I undestood!!! (maybe because I speak Spanish)

[lsfrench]

espero que los que hablan ingles entiendan tambien!

[samuel1abarza]

Con tan buena explicación. Es lo más probable ;)

[lsfrench]

chocho! muchas gracias!