PRENDRE (TO TAKE) - Learn French With Alexa

PRENDRE (TO TAKE) - PASSÉ COMPOSÉ
LESSON OBJECTIVES
To learn how to conjugate prendre (to take) in the past tense or passé composé.
INTRODUCTION
Prendre (to take) is a 3rd group verb.
Its past participle is pris.
It is conjugated with the auxiliary avoir in the passé composé.
PRENDRE
PASSÉ COMPOSÉ
j'ai pris (I took/I have taken)
tu as pris (you took/you have taken) - informal
il a pris (he took/he has taken)
elle a pris (he took/he has taken)
on a pris (we took/we have taken) - informal
nous avons pris (we took/we have taken)
vous avez pris (you took/you have taken) - formal or plural
ils ont pris (they took/they have taken) - masculine or mixed masculine/feminine
elles ont pris (they took/they have taken) - feminine plural
EXAMPLES
J'ai pris le train.
I took the train.
Tom a pris le train de neuf heures vingt à la gare de Dijon pour aller à Paris.
Tom took the nine twenty train from Dijon in order to go to Paris.
J'ai pris des médicaments pendant une semaine.
I took some medicine for one week.
Je n'ai pas pris de médicaments pendant une semaine.
I did not take any medicine for one week.
George et Martin n'ont pas pris de café pour le déjeuner.
George and Martin didn't take a coffee for lunch.
NOTES
In the last example, notice how the negation wraps around the auxiliary avoir.
Remember that after ne...pas, the indefinite articles un, une, des and the partitive articles du,
de la, de l', des become de.