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You've already seen inverted questions in Le Présent. Let's see how to form inverted questions in Le Passé Composé.
Learn how to form inverted questions in Le Passé Composé in French
To form questions by inverting in Le Passé Composé (Indicatif) when the subject is a subject pronoun, you follow this order:
(question word) + auxiliary avoir/être + hyphen + je/tu/il/elle/on/nous/vous/ils/elles + past participle
Il est allé au cinéma -> Est-il allé au cinéma?
He went to the cinema -> Did he go to the cinema?
Here are more examples:
ATTENTION:
For pronouns il/elle/on + avoir, you need to add a -t- between avoir (= a) and the pronoun, to ease the pronunciation:
See also Inverted questions in the present tense (Le Présent) in French - regular forms (except il/elle/on forms)
Inverted questions in the present tense (Le Présent) in French - il/elle/on forms
but also Inverted questions in the compound past (Le Passé Composé) in French - with nouns
and Inverted questions with reflexive verbs in the compound past (Le Passé Composé) in French
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