Passé composé - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passé_composéThe passé composé is a past tense in the modern French language. It is used to express an action that has been finished completely or incompletely at the time of speech, or at some (possibly unknown) time in the past. The passé composé originally corresponded in function to the English present perfect, but now there is a tendency to use the tense for all completed actions in the past as the equi…