chanté

In a sentence

• J'ai chanté une chanson douce hier soir.

  I sang a soft song last night.

  In this sentence, 'chanté' is the past participle of 'chanter,' and it is used in the compound past tense ('passé composé'). It describes the action of singing in the past.

• La mélodie qu'elle a chantée était magnifique.

  The melody she sang was magnificent.

  Here, 'chantée' agrees in gender and number with 'mélodie' (feminine singular) because it is a past participle used as an attribute of a preceding direct object.

• Si j'avais chanté, nous aurions été heureux.

  If I had sung, we would have been happy.

  In this conditional sentence, 'chanté' is part of the pluperfect ('plus-que-parfait') tense, combining the auxiliary verb with the past participle to describe a hypothetical action in the past.