#ᵇʳⁱqᵒˡᵃᵈᵉ ׂׂૢ་༘࿐

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solemn wagonBOT
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slender wigeon
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Or je veux jouer mais de rester où je suis, ça me plairait

frank pumice
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when you’re using « avant », you have to use the preposition « de »
and so you say: Avant **d’**exister

slender wigeon
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Mais c'est dans a chandon

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Charles Aznavour

orchid light
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« Avant de » is followed by an infinitive
« Avant que » is followed by a clause with a subject and a conjugated verb

Avant de manger, faisons l’apéro
Avant que tu manges, laves-toi les mains

frank pumice
chilly portal
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"avant que de" is an older variant of "avant de" that is no longer used nowadays, but can be found in older (roughly pre 20th century) litterature

slender wigeon
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Oh

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Oki

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Thank you all

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But besides avant de/que

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I use de verb infinitive for taking about a verbs in infinitive right

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Idek how to pose this question tbh

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when do you use de in front of a infinitive ?

chilly portal
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It's a rather broad question: some prepositions can be followed by an infinitive, and de is the most common (others are à, pour, sans, par, and that's it AFAICT)

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In this case you can think of "avant de" as a single unit that acts as a variant of "avant" when an infinitive follows

slender wigeon
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Ohh i see

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So you use de when really it belongs to the thing that precedes infinitive

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Fanks

night oriole
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Prepositions before an infinitive actually depend on the element before the preposition itself. For example, verbs can take different prepositions:
=> décider takes de
« Je décide de lui parler »
=> hésiter takes à
« J’hésite à lui parler
=> espérer takes nothing
« J’espère lui parler »

You have to learn per verb unfortunately, there’s no clear pattern. Prepositions generally don’t involve other prepositions but « avant » takes de when followed by an infinitive. Another one that comes to mind is « à moins de infinitive » like « On ne gagnera pas à moins d’avoir ce dont on a besoin »