jomoshy

[stoic surge]

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[marble dew]

Simple past is an outdated tense pretty much only used in literature and storytelling/narration. We use compound past instead in pretty much everything.

(Because of this, imperfect and pluperfect subjunctive tenses that use this tense as their base (tenir => je tins => que je tinsse) also went out of use and we use present pand past ones instead.)

[wind mural]

To be clear
passé composé (compound past) is not the only past tense used colloquially. Imperfect, pluperfect are still very much in use for instance.
Just not simple past (you're still gonna see and it in books, speeches, songs, etc, but not in casual speech)

[real matrix]

oooooo makes so much more sense

Merci guys(don't know how to say guys in french)