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Nous les avons préparés nous-mêmes

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Nous les avons préparés nous-mêmes

Nous les avons préparés nous-mêmes


If préparer is a regular verb why do we use it with 's' in past tense?

Thank you.

This question relates to:French lesson "Using [French stress pronouns] + même(s) to express "myself/yourself/etc" in French"
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CécileNative French expert teacher in KwiziqCorrect answer

Hi Lina,

This is to do with the rules of agreement of past participles with the auxiliary 'avoir'.

Please take a look at the following Kwiziq lesson for more detail -

https://kwiziq.learnfrenchwithalexa.com/revision/grammar/special-cases-when-the-past-participle-agrees-in-number-and-gender-when-used-with-avoir-in-le-passe-compose-conversational-past

Bonne Continuation!

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Nous les avons préparés nous-mêmes

Nous les avons préparés nous-mêmes


If préparer is a regular verb why do we use it with 's' in past tense?

Thank you.

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