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  2. Passé simple - Wikipedia

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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.

  3. French verbs - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  4. Past tense - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  5. Simple past - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  6. They shall not pass - Wikipedia

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    The leader of the Nationalist forces, Generalísimo Francisco Franco, upon gaining Madrid, responded to this slogan by declaring "Hemos pasado" ("We have passed"). " ¡No pasarán! " was used by British anti-fascists during the October 1936 Battle of Cable Street , and is still used in this context in some political circles.

  7. Le passé simple - Wikipedia

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    Le passé simple may refer to: Passé simple, a past tense in French; The Simple Past, a novel, by Driss Chraïbi This page was last edited on 10 ...

  8. En passant - Wikipedia

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    The en passant capture is the only capturing move in chess where the capturing piece moves to a square not occupied by the captured piece. [6]: 463 Because many casual players are unfamiliar with or misunderstand the en passant rule, administrators on internet chess sites frequently receive erroneous complaints of bugs, cheating or hacking. [7]

  9. Comparison of Portuguese and Spanish - Wikipedia

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    A capacidade de expressão do homem não disporia de mais engenhos que a dos animais. A voz, sozinha, é para o homem apenas uma matéria informe, que para se transformar num instrumento perfeito de comunicação, tem que ser submetida a certos processos. As manipulações que a voz recebe, são as "articulações". (Portuguese)