Passé composé

Passé composé (French pronunciation: ​[pase kɔ̃poze], compound past) is the most commonly used past tense in the modern French language. It is used to express an action that has been completed at the time of speech, or at some (possibly unknown) time in the past. Passé composé originally corresponded in function to the English present perfect, and is still used as such or as past simple. Passé composé is formed using an auxiliary verb and the past participle of a verb.