How to say where you've been, when you arrived etc On est parti
? Je suis arrivée ici il y a trois ans. Vous êtes arrivés à
quelle heure ? One way of talking about what you've done is to
use part of the verb avoir with a past participle ( See chambre
d'hôte) : j'ai fait, on a visité, vous avez bien dormi ? etc
This is called the perfect tense and it describes completed
actions. But there are a handful of verbs that form their
perfect tense with parts of être instead of avoir. These include
aller, venir, arriver, partir and other verbs to do with
movement. For this group of verbs the past participle changes
like an adjective according to the gender or number of the
subject. These different endings only really matter if you are
writing French as they don't affect pronunciation. This tense is
called the passé composé and can have several English
translations. Il est allé à Paris can mean: he went, he has gone
or he has been to Paris.