Breakdown of Elle m'a informé qu'elle aurait fait la mise à jour du planning.
elle
she
avoir
to have
faire
to do, to make
du
of the / from the (masculine singular, with plural des)
me
me, myself (object pronoun)
que
that (introducing a clause)
informer
to inform
la mise à jour
the update
le planning
the schedule (work/tasks)
Questions & Answers about Elle m'a informé qu'elle aurait fait la mise à jour du planning.
Why do we use the past conditional aurait fait here instead of a future tense?
This is the rule of reported speech, also known as the sequence of tenses. Because the introductory verb a informé is in a past tense, what was originally a future perfect statement shifts back a step in time. The future perfect becomes the past conditional.
What would her exact words have been in direct speech?
She would have used the future perfect (le futur antérieur) and said: J'aurai fait la mise à jour du planning (I will have done the schedule update). When reported in the past by someone else, j'aurai fait becomes elle aurait fait.
Why doesn't the past participle informé agree with the feminine subject Elle?
When using the auxiliary verb avoir, the past participle never agrees with the subject. It only agrees with the preceding direct object. Here, the direct object is m' (me). Because informé has no extra feminine -e at the end, we know the person being spoken to (the 'me' in the sentence) is masculine.
How does la mise à jour mean 'the update'?
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