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grizzled iglooBOT Dec 29, 2025, 11:53 PM

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stark granite Dec 29, 2025, 11:54 PM

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I want to make sure that I get this right, (1) refers to un moment and (5) refers to l'habitude, le besoin. Next I don't understand what the locution "m'en faire" (4) means and the role that "à ce que" (2) plays. Also did they use subjonctif mode in (3) because that expresses a subjective opinion of the locuteur?

halcyon tangle Dec 30, 2025, 12:55 AM

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(1) correct
(5) it only refers to habitude
(4) "en" refers to the goodnight kiss ritual
(2) this is actually pretty confusing. I would've expected just "que" since it's completing "souhaiter" but we have "à ce que", as if it were completing "arrivais". maybe there's something I'm not getting
(3) this is actually the second form of the past conditional (which looks exactly like the pluperfect subjunctive). so just a literary version of "elle aurait voulu"

true tree Dec 30, 2025, 2:01 AM

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I feel like "à ce que" has a similar use as "afin que" here.

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As for (4), the pronoun "en" also replaces a noun complement introduced by the preposition "de". Here, we have le besoin de... and l'habitude de... It refers to the asking for an extra kiss.

halcyon tangle Dec 30, 2025, 2:45 AM

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true tree I feel like "à ce que" has a similar use as "afin que" here.

interesting! that would make a lot of sense

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do you happen to know any other examples of that usage?

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