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[covert yew]

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[half quarry]

I believe that's passé simple. usually foun in literary stuff I heard.

I had a heart attack I thought you drew over the book at first glance ngl

[worthy needle]

I asked AI to answer the question and it explained to me what passé simple and futur simple means. So if I understand, in writting form (Je trouvai) would be (I found) and (Je trouverai) would be (I will find) ....but when speaking (J'ai trouvé) is (I found) and (Je trouverai) is still (I will find)? I think

[half quarry]

I don't know much about passé simple but yes.

je trouve = I find, i'm finding
je trouverai = I will find (soon or in the near future)
je trouverais = I would find
je trouvais = I found (long period of time, setting up the ambiance)
j'ai trouvé = I found (one action at that precise moment)

I have no explanation for you for passé simple sorry. my highschool teacher said he'd learn that in uni my uni prof said we had already learned that in higschool so we're not covering that (natives actually had to study it at some point, I'm not a native.)

[rugged sable]

Passé simple is the same as passé composé but for narration (or just general very very formal usage)

You'll mainly see it in books, but you can also hear it in narrations, could also hear it for things like campfire stories or from weirdly formal politicians, sometimes in fixed expressions

[errant lake]

weirdly formal politicians 😭

[half quarry]

which are the most common fixed expressions that use passé simple ?

[rugged sable]

"ce fut un plaisir" is the most classic one I can think of

They're mostly used jokingly, almost like how we use "thee" and shit like that in present day english