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Tips to remember “nous avons mangé”:
– Associate “avons” with “have” since “avoir” is the French verb for “to have.”
– Remember “mangé” comes from “manger,” which sounds like “munch,” a word related to eating.
– Think of “nous” as “us,” which closely resembles “we,” its English counterpart.

Explanations:
– “Nous avons mangé” is the past tense called “le passé composé,” which expresses a completed action in the past.
– “Nous” means “we.”
– “Avons” is the present tense conjugation of “avoir” for the first person plural, which acts as an auxiliary verb here.
– “Mangé” is the past participle of the verb “manger,” meaning “to eat.”

Other words that mean the same thing:
– “On a mangé” could be used more informally to mean “we ate.”
– “Nous avons dîné” if the meal was specifically dinner.

Since “mangé” is not infinitive but a past participle, I’ll give you the present, future, and imperfect past tense of the infinitive “manger”:
– Present: “nous mangeons” (we eat)
– Future: “nous mangerons” (we will eat)
– Imperfect: “nous mangions” (we were eating)

Examples of sentences that use “nous avons mangé”:
– “Hier soir, nous avons mangé dans un excellent restaurant.”
(Yesterday evening, we ate at an excellent restaurant.)
– “Après le match, nous avons mangé une pizza ensemble.”
(After the match, we ate a pizza together.)
– “Nous avons mangé trop de gâteau et maintenant, nous sommes pleins!”
(We ate too much cake, and now we are full!)

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