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uncut belfryBOT Mar 4, 2024, 7:41 AM

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Please be patient

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grand pilot Mar 4, 2024, 7:43 AM

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This looks okay though the English translations are a bit off. In future, you could just consult a conjugation table, you know?

silver canopy Mar 4, 2024, 7:44 AM

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Oh yeah that was probably a smarter thing to do

grand pilot Mar 4, 2024, 7:45 AM

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The link I just referred to, WordReference, is a bilingual dictionary so you can look up meanings, translations, and for verbs you can look for their conjugations as well

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Excellent resource, make sure you bookmark and keep them

grand pilot Mar 4, 2024, 7:46 AM

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silver canopy Oh yeah that was probably a smarter thing to do

The subjunctive translations are off because the subjunctive expresses something that doesn't really exist to a large extent in English, and the simple past/passé simple isn't used anymore (nous visitâmes) and instead we use the compound past/passé composé (nous avons visité)

silver canopy Mar 4, 2024, 7:47 AM

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Oh ok thank you

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I will use what you suggested

grand pilot Mar 4, 2024, 7:50 AM

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silver canopy Oh ok thank you

Oh and the imperfect subjunctive is also not used anymore outside of literary contexts, same as the simple past. You can start here and then read from there

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