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An exception to this is the adverb tout "wholly, very" which agrees in gender and number with the adjective it modifies when it is in the feminine and begins with a consonant (e.g. tout petit "very small, m.s.", tous petits "very small, m.pl." but toute petite "very small, f.s.", toutes petites "very small, f.pl." — when beginning with a ...
The passé composé is formed by the auxiliary verb, usually the avoir auxiliary, followed by the past participle.The construction is parallel to that of the present perfect (there is no difference in French between perfect and non-perfect forms - although there is an important difference in usage between the perfect tense and the imperfect tense).
le mot juste lit. "the just word"; the right word at the right time. French uses it often in the expression chercher le mot juste (to search for the right word). motif a recurrent thematic element. moue a type of facial expression; pursing together of the lips to indicate dissatisfaction, a pout. See snout reflex. mousse
Aside from être and avoir (considered categories unto themselves), French verbs are traditionally [1] grouped into three conjugation classes (groupes): . The first conjugation class consists of all verbs with infinitives ending in -er, except for the irregular verb aller and (by some accounts) the irregular verbs envoyer and renvoyer; [2] the verbs in this conjugation, which together ...
Dans le Pacifique Sud, elle vous cerne de toutes parts, se glissant sous votre chemise, dans vos oreilles, vos narines, étreignant tout votre corps jusqu’à ce que de petites gouttes de transpiration viennent perler entre les poils de vos sourcils et de votre moustache. Le temps de trouver un taxi, j’étais trempé de sueur.
Avoir les yeux dans la graisse de bines = to be in love or to be tired (glassy-eyed) Avoir l’estomac dans les talons = to be extremely hungry; Être né pour un petit pain = One who doesn't have many opportunities. Usually used in the negative form. Il fait frette = It is cold; Chanter la pomme = to flirt; Se pogner le cul = to sit and do ...
Être is itself conjugated according to the tense and mood, and this may require the use of avoir as an additional auxiliary verb, e.g. Il a été mangé (It was eaten). Compound tenses are conjugated with an auxiliary followed by the past participle, ex: j'ai fait (I did), je suis tombé (I fell).
Le Temps (French pronunciation: [lə tɑ̃], lit. ' The Time ') is a Swiss French-language daily newspaper published in Berliner format in Geneva by Le Temps SA. The paper was launched in 1998, formed out of the merger of two other newspapers, Journal de Genève et Gazette de Lausanne and Le Nouveau Quotidien (the former being a merger of two other papers), as those papers were facing ...