... drop the
-
ons, and add the appropriate endings: -ais, -ais, -ait, -ions, -iez, and -aient. Check out
Table 1 1-1 , which lists several verbs in their
nous form.
Table 1 1-1 Nous Forms of Irregular ... situations. For example, you can
use it to express a habitual and continuous action in the past as well as in all kinds of
descriptions. You can recall what the weather wa...
... (like the verbs presented in Chapter 4), then it also has an irregular past
participle. However, irregular verbs that follow the same conjugation pattern as
partir
(to leave) have regular past participles. ... other
irregular verbs have the following forms in the past participle. Table 1 2-5 lists these
four irregular verbs and their past participles.
Table 1 2-5 Irregu...
... J’aimais les promenades. (
I loved the walks.
)
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Answer Key
This section contains the answers to all ... coup il a commencé à pleuvoir. (The children
were playing in the park when all of a sudden it began to rain.
)
o
Autrefois mes grands-parents habitaient en Champagne. (In...
... taking their past participles and
adding endings. If the past participle of a verb ends in
u, add the following endings:
-s, -s, -t, - mes, - tes, -rent.
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Ils furent partis avant l’ouragan. (
They had left before the hurricane.
)
Because the passé antérieur expresses an action that has taken...
... expressions that have a different meaning in French.
Part III: Taking a Look Back: The Past Tenses
This part introduces, forms, and explains the uses of the imperfect, passé composé,
and pluperfect tenses ... two literary past tenses: the passé
simple and the passé antérieur.
Part IV: Looking Ahead: The Future
and the Conditional Tenses
In this part...
... remplace Paul. (She replaces Paul.)
j
Vous lancez la balle. (You throw the ball.)
k
Jean et Marie-Claire annoncent leurs fiançailles. (Jean and Marie-Claire announce their
engagement.
)
l
Mon patron ... étudiants avancent en mathématiques. (The students are advancing in mathematics.)
s
Le chat menace la souris. (The cat is threatening the mouse.)
t
Nous mangeons un grand repas le diman...
... perceive).
Craindre (to fear) is another verb that has a unique conjugation. Drop the -dre and
add
-s, -s, -t for the singular. For the plural, drop the -ndre and add -gn before the regu-
lar endings,
-ons, ... verb
partir, get rid of the -tir for the singular and add -s, -s, -t. Now for the
plural, bring back the
t from the infinitive and add -ons, -ez, -ent. For th...
... because their meaning changes, some-
times even drastically. You can’t translate idiomatic expressions word for word
because separately they have a different meaning than when they’re idiomatic.
If ... do, and are conjugated the same way.
Table 5-4 compares the “plain” usual verb with its idiomatic counterpart.
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