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  2. List of proverbial phrases - Wikipedia

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    What the eye does not see, the heart does not grieve over; Where there is a will there is a way; Where there is muck there is brass; Where there is life there is hope [37] Whether you think you can, or you think you can't, you're right; While there is life there is hope; Who will bell the cat? Whom the Gods love die young

  3. Imperfect - Wikipedia

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    A common mistake of beginners learning a Romance language is putting too much emphasis on whether the time the action occurred is known. This generally does not affect how the imperfect is used. For example, the sentence "Someone ate all of my cookies." (when translated) is not a good candidate for the imperfect.

  4. RSVP - Wikipedia

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    RSVP is an initialism derived from the French phrase "Répondez s'il vous plaît", [1] meaning "Please respond" (literally "Respond, if it pleases you"), to require confirmation of an invitation.

  5. Imperfective aspect - Wikipedia

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    evening sedn-eshe sit. PFV - PST. IPFV na on chardak-a veranda- DEF vecher sedn-eshe na chardak-a evening sit.PFV-PST.IPFV on veranda-DEF In the evening, he would sit down on the veranda. Here each sitting is an unanalyzed whole, a simple event, so the perfective root of the verb sedn 'sat' is used. However, the clause as a whole describes an ongoing event conceived of as having internal ...

  6. Love - Wikipedia

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    Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love." (1 John 4:7–8) Saint Augustine wrote that one must be able to decipher the difference between love and lust. Lust, according to Saint Augustine, is an overindulgence, but to love and be loved is what he has sought for his ...

  7. Quebec English - Wikipedia

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    Quebec English encompasses the English dialects (both native and non-native) of the predominantly French-speaking Canadian province of Quebec. [2] There are few distinctive phonological features and very few restricted lexical features common among English-speaking Quebecers.