Our question to you in this activity is: comment avez-vous fêté la St-Valentin? The verb fêter means “to celebrate”. If you’re trying to work out what something means, remember that if there’s a circumflex accent it often means that in old French there used to be an ‘s’, so fêter < “fester” which can be linked to “festival” and other English words.
So how did you celebrate Valentine’s day? You’ll need to use a perfect tense in your answer. The perfect tense is formed by combining the auxiliary verb (normally avoir) with the past participle:
- j’ai offert des fleurs à ma copine
- nous avons mangé dans un restaurant
- je n’ai rien fait
Can you work out what these mean? Some verbs need être as the auxiliary verb in the perfect tense:
- je suis allé(e) au cinéma avec ma femme / mon mari
- nous sommes sortis hier soir
Remember that with “être verbs” you need to make the past participle agree with the subject. So if you’re female you need to say je suis allée and so on.
C’est à vous maintenant: let us know how you spent St Valentine’s Day in the comments.