#Hey! Does anyone know how I would say "

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trail basalt
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An example: C’est célébré à travers le monde, tire son origine d’Israël. C’est célébré par les Juifs.

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célébré would mean that it happened in the past, but I'm trying to speak of it as its a thing that is happening in the past, present, and future

orchid holly
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célébré doesn't necessarily mean it happened in the past

trail basalt
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Is past simple not used to describe things that occurred in the past? If you were to say je mangé, that would mean: I ate. Right?

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wrong accent

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I think

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But you understood the message.

orchid holly
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J'ai mangé is in the past, and that is passé composé, not passé simple

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but to your point, it involves the past participle "mangé" but the past participle doesn't always mean that is in the past

trail basalt
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My baddx

orchid holly
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so you can say "je suis mangé" for I'm eaten

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which is not in the past

trail basalt
modest shale
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It's the passive voice we're talking about here, and the tense is only on the verb être, the past participle has nothing to do with it.

orchid holly
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It's basically okay but I would probably use il est instead of c'est

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@ nameless?

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You can also say On le célèbre

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there are a few ways to say it

modest shale
trail basalt
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What do people mean when they add (e)?? Does it mean that it can conditionaly have an e at the end?

orchid holly
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yeah

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depending on the gender of what it's describing

modest shale
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When the past participle takes on the feminine form based on the word it refers to.

trail basalt
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I see

modest shale
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Le festival est célébré
La fête est célébrée

orchid holly
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so true

trail basalt
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What if I use the name of the holiday?

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Will it be muscilin?

modest shale
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It depends.

orchid holly
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if it's just a name then probably yeah

trail basalt
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Okay. Thanks for the information. :).

orchid holly
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what's the holiday?

trail basalt
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Hanukkah

orchid holly
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apparently it's feminine

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i looked it up

trail basalt
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Ah. Did you use a website? When I tried to look into it, I couldn't find information

orchid holly
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yeah I just used wordreference

rare basin
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Mate I gave you WordReference like a few days ago

trail basalt
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I didn't think wordReference can be used for names

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trail basalt
orchid holly
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I actually didn't realize that things without articles could be feminine

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well apart from people..

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orchid holly
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so true

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wait what

rare basin
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Selon la tradition rabbinique, au cours de cette consécration, se produisit le miracle de la fiole d'huile, permettant aux prêtres du Temple de faire brûler pendant huit jours une quantité d'huile à peine suffisante pour une journée. C'est pourquoi Hanoucca est aussi appelée la « Fête des Lumières ».

orchid holly
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oh no I mean like

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words that dont have articles

rare basin
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oh it doesn't use articles lol

orchid holly
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yeah

rare basin
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and it might get its gender due to « fête juive »

orchid holly
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thats what i meant lol

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who knows

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i just discovered this crazy thing

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so apparently it switches gender...

rare basin
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Like you'd use feminine agreements with planets though they don't use articles because the noun they relate to is a feminine noun, « une planète »

orchid holly
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that's cool I didn't know

rare basin
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This is related because the first two are like « le jour de Pâques » but the last is « fête de Pâques »

orchid holly
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wow that makes a lot of sense

rare basin
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Aaanyway, the past tenses either imply that it was done a few times in the past or used to be done but is no longer done

orchid holly
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Halloween is apparently also feminine

rare basin
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« La fête se célébra / fut célébrée »
-> We celebrated the festival a few times in the past and we don't do it anymore

« La fête se célébrait / elle était célébrée »
–> We used to celebrate it habitually but no longer do

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If you're looking for something that has happen, is happening, and will happen, the present is all you need

rare basin
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it's feminine all the way down

orchid holly
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I'm totally not getting the whole gender switching thing

rare basin
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oh wow

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WordReference is wrong

orchid holly
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...

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are you sure

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orchid holly
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that doesnt say what gender Pâques is

rare basin
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It used as a feminine

orchid holly
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oh

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never mind i cant read

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so its plural neutral but treated like singular feminine

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... ok got it

rare basin
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'The substantive noun « Pâques » is – like the singular feminine « Pâque » – a borrowing from Christian Latin pascha, a plural neuter noun treated as a singular feminine. The Latin pascha is itself borrowed from the Greek Páskha and it [Páskha] – by the intermediary of Aramaic pascha – from Biblical Hebrew pesah which might be derived from the verb pasah which means « to go ahead, to spare » because, according to the Bible, the Israelites had received the order to sacrifice a lamb unblemished of all defects and to daub the blood [of the lamb] on the posts of their doors so that the powers that would come to destroy the Egyptians' first borns during the tenth plague may pass ahead of their doors without stopping there to kill their children.'

orchid holly
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Okay

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but look what I found

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a guide for every holiday

rare basin
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FRENCH

orchid holly
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wish I learned Spanish instead

rare basin