koshka

[grim granite]

Please be patient

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[thorn nova]

It would be the past tense in English too there…

[stark wind]

‘We both knew that we had to leave each other later.’
Past in both clauses.

[oak reef]

oh, cuz when i translated the sentence it said ''we both knew we will have to leave eachother later''

[stark wind]

Yeah I don’t know what service you used

For what it’s worth, I would’ve said, ‘We both knew we would have to leave each other later’ in English to preserve the past timeframe

« On savait toutes les deux qu’on devrait se quitter plus tard. »

[oak reef]

yeah im not sure why devoir is used in the past when its an action about to happen in the future lol

[stark wind]

It’s just shifted

Je te dis que ton ami part
(I tell you that your friend is leaving)
Present => Present

Je t’ai dit que ton ami partait
(I told you that your friend was leaving)
Past => Past

Je te dis que ton ami partira
(I tell you that your friend will be leaving)
Present => Future

Je t’ai dit que ton ami partirait
(I told you that your friend would be leaving)
Past => Future-in-the-past/Conditional