passe compose v. passe simple

[grammaire]

Bonjour a tout le monde,

Pouvez-vous me explicez la differance entre la "passe compose" et la "passe simple" s'il vous plait?

Par example,

On dit "Hier j'ai travaille" ou "Hier je travaillai"?=Yesterday, I worked.
On dit "J'ai travaille pendant l'ete" ou "J'e travaillai pendant l'ete"?

Merci beaucoup

[Marcus]

Hi,


There's two or three difference...
First, the passé simple is always used in written language (as oral has nearly forgotten it). Most of the time, you should use imparfait or passé composé.

The passé composé is used when you're telling about an action that is finished or takes time, but not to describe an action in the past. For a description, you'll use imparfait or passé simple. As these are more briefly...

It's rather difficult to give rules as i use them only by feeling... I might help on exemples more easily.
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Semper Fidelem

[grammaire]

Thank you very much