Juliet *

[fallow raptor]

Please be patient

Our volunteers look into many questions every day; sometimes it takes them a little while to answer.

Pro tip: you can rename the thread title with `.tr <thread name>`

Make it descriptive, including relevant context, but also to the point. This way you improve your chances of getting a more relevant and specific answer.

[noble perch]

Dans ce contexte je dirais "Je pensais qu'il me restait une semaine avant le début des cours"

"I thought I had a week left before the start of classes" is that what you’re trying to say?

As for your sentence "je pensais que j’ai une semaine", I would change j’ai to j’avais just to match the tenses

[restive rapids]

With the verb penser, if the subject is the same, you can just follow it up with an infinitive

Je pensais avoir une semaine avant XYZ

If you add another clause, the tense needs to match because of concordance des temps

je pensais qu'il avait une semaine avant XYZ

[tawdry quiver]

je pense que j'aurai une semaine
becomes
je pensais que j'aurais une semaine
no?

but the infinitive solution is fine too

[noble perch]

It can become that depending on what you’re trying to say 🤷🏻‍♀️

[spare sequoia]

Yeah but the subordinate is in the present not the future