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[zinc dew]

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[vagrant escarp]

It's actually pretty good already, you might want to work on tenses "I have been" would probably translate to something else than "présent", specifically, we don't have present perfect in french, and something that starts in the past and continue in the present usually use another tense, come back to me for this one if you don't find out.

Also, you might want to find another adjective for "tempête", tempête venteuse doesn't work at all.

[grizzled cobalt]

im struggling on the tense since french doesn't have present progressive, and it feels strange to use "en train de" in this case ): help would be awesome thank you so much

for gusty storm, how about tempête en rafales ? or tempête sauvage ? tempête violente ?

[grizzled cobalt]

hm i wonder would passé composé work ?

[vagrant escarp]

Tempête sauvage works great. In this case, I'm torn up between keeping present tense or using imparfait. Usually when we try to describe something from the past that continues to the present, that's the tense we go for, there's lots of possible exception and I think most fellow Frenchies would say present isn't that weird here, it's just less precise.

On this case, "je grattais" ma guitare would be my go-to, but I'm not sure if the first understanding of it wouldnt be "something from the past" without the idea of it continuing into the present, which could be a case for présent. Not sure if I'm clear though so don't hesitate to ask anything you wouldn't understand.