Breakdown of La veste que vous avez livrée a un défaut. Vous l'avez remboursée ?
un
a / an (masculine)
vous
you (plural/formal)
avoir
to have
la veste
the jacket
la
her, it (feminine direct object pronoun)
que
that (introducing a clause)
livrer
to deliver
le défaut
the flaw / the defect
rembourser
to refund / to reimburse
Questions & Answers about La veste que vous avez livrée a un défaut. Vous l'avez remboursée ?
Why do livrée and remboursée have an extra -e at the end even though they use the auxiliary verb avoir?
Normally, verbs conjugated with avoir in the passé composé don't change their past participle. However, there is a special rule: if the direct object comes before the verb, the past participle must agree with it. Here, both actions happen to la veste (a feminine noun), so we add an -e to make the participles feminine.
What are the preceding direct objects in these two sentences?
In the first sentence, the direct object is the relative pronoun que (that), which refers back to la veste. In the second sentence, the direct object is l' (it), which also replaces la veste. Because both que and l' come before their verbs, they trigger the special agreement rule.
How do we know that l' is feminine in the second sentence?
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