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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. 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 ...

  4. Past tense - Wikipedia

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    Past historic or Simple past (passé simple) e.g. Je mangeai (I ate) (literary only) Pluperfect (Plus que parfait) e.g. J'avais mangé (I had eaten [before another event in the past]) Recent past (passé recent) e.g. Je viens de manger (I just ate or I have just eaten)

  5. French language - Wikipedia

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    The indicative mood makes use of eight tense-aspect forms. These include the present (présent), the simple past (passé composé and passé simple), the past imperfective , the pluperfect (plus-que-parfait), the simple future (futur simple), the future perfect (futur antérieur), and the past perfect (passé antérieur). Some forms are less ...

  6. The Simple Past - Wikipedia

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    The Simple Past (Le passé simple) is a French novel by the Moroccan writer Driss Chraïbi.It was first published by the Gallimard in 1954.. The novel received widespread attention, in Morocco and France, due to its controversial themes and defiant expression and was harshly criticized by conservatives in both countries alike, but today it is considered a classic.

  7. France - Wikipedia

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    France, [IX] officially the French Republic, [X] is a country located primarily in Western Europe. Its overseas regions and territories include French Guiana in South America, Saint Pierre and Miquelon in the North Atlantic, the French West Indies, and many islands in Oceania and the Indian Ocean, giving it one of the largest discontiguous exclusive economic zones in the world.

  8. Agua (Tainy and J Balvin song) - Wikipedia

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    "Agua" (Spanish: "Water") is a song by Puerto Rican producer Tainy and Colombian singer J Balvin. The track was released on July 9, 2020 by NEON16 and Interscope Records as the theme song and lead single off the soundtrack to the 2020 film The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run .

  9. Francis II of France - Wikipedia

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    Francis was born 11 years after his parents' wedding. The long delay in producing an heir may have been due to his father's repudiation of his mother in favour of his mistress Diane de Poitiers, [1] but this repudiation was mitigated by Diane's insistence that Henry spend his nights with Catherine. [1]