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Une écrivaine francophone: perfect tense verbs like ouvrir, écrire & traduire

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I can write in the perfect tense, using a range of verbs with avoir and être and with different types of past participle, to describe the past life and writings of a Francophone writer.

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The past participles of verbs like ouvrir become ouvert, e.g. je découvre in the perfect tense becomes j'ai découvert. The past participles of verbs like traduire become traduit, e.g. tu détruis in the perfect tense becomes tu as détruit. The past participles of verbs like écrire become écrit, e.g. elle décrit becomes in the perfect tense elle a décrit. Past participles used with être must agree in gender and number with the subject of the verb.

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