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The passé simple is used to express: [1] an event or action, of long or short duration, that is complete, and over, but not necessarily remote in time: Le Général de Gaulle vécut 80 ans. General de Gaulle lived for eighty years. En 1991, l'équipe de France de tennis gagna la coupe Davis. In 1991, the French team won the Davis Cup.
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 ...
Regular verbs form the simple past end-ed; however there are a few hundred irregular verbs with different forms. [2] The spelling rules for forming the past simple of regular verbs are as follows: verbs ending in -e add only –d to the end (e.g. live – lived, not *liveed), verbs ending in -y change to -ied (e.g. study – studied) and verbs ending in a group of a consonant + a vowel + a ...
Pluperfect (pluperfecto, mais-que-perfeito) e.g. Yo había comido or Yo hube comido and Eu comera or Eu tinha comido (I had eaten [before another event in the past]) A difference in the pluperfect occurs between Spanish and Portuguese; in the latter, a synthetic pluperfect exists which follows the imperfect conjugations, but -ra replaces the ...
en bloc as a group. en garde "[be] on [your] guard". "On guard" is of course perfectly good English: the French spelling is used for the fencing term. en passant in passing; term used in chess and in neurobiology ("synapse en passant.") En plein air en plein air lit. "in the open air"; particularly used to describe the act of painting outdoors ...
A condom is a sheath-shaped barrier device used during sexual intercourse to reduce the probability of pregnancy or a sexually transmitted infection (STI). [1] [5] There are both external condoms, also called male condoms, and internal (female) condoms.
Between the stem and the inflectional endings that are common across most verbs, there may be a vowel, which in the case of the -er verbs is a silent -e-(in the simple present singular), -é or -ai (in the past participle and the je form of the simple past), and -a-(in the rest of simple past singular and in the past subjunctive).
A box of Durex Fetherlite condoms. Durex is a British brand of condoms and personal lubricants owned by Reckitt Benckiser and currently led by Ben Wilson. [1] It was initially developed in London under the purview of the London Rubber Company and British Latex Products Ltd, where it was manufactured between 1932 and 1994.