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? asked in Society & CultureLanguages · 9 years ago

I need French tence help!?

I am learning French and I need to learn progressive tense. If you could give me a ton of examples of progressive tense sentences translated into french, that's all I really need for me to understand.

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  • 9 years ago
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    The progressevive tenses doesn't exist in french. But you can express ongoing actions by using some verbal/lexical perifrasis or an adverb

    ex : I'm watching TV /

    - je suis en train de regarder la télévision

    - je suis occupé à regarder la télévision

    - actuellement je regarde la télévision

    - je n'arrête pas de regarder la télévision

    ex : I was listening music when my parents came in.

    - j'étais en train d'écouter de la musique quand mes parents entrèrent/sont entrés

    - j'étais occupé à écouter la musique/je m'occupais en écoutant la musique, quand mes parents entrèrent

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    ex : the economic crisis will be getting worse

    - la crise économique va aller/ ira en empirant

    - la crise économique continuera à/d' empirer

    - la crise économique ne cessera d'empirer

    Source(s): I'm french
  • 5 years ago

    Ignore Melnazar, he isn't absolutely proper.... (sorry friend) Near long run in English is 'I am going to do x'. In French it is the equal, 'Je vais faire x'. It is the conjugated type of 'aller' plus an infinitive. So yeah you are correct, you consistently use the verb to visit type this anxious. I consider you are just a little harassed for your instance: 'I am going to Paris' is honestly reward (eg you're at the airplane, GOING to paris) however it implies long run in English. If you had been to make use of the close long run it must be 'I am going to visit Paris'. Which is, logically, 'Je vais aller a Paris'. Also, you wish to have an a (with an accessory factor) whilst regarding Paris. You are not able to say de, or use not anything, such as you do ^^. Past tenses; there are 2 on this case. passé composé and imperfect. Here you'll be able to use both when you consider that it's unspecified whether or not the movement of 'going' is done or now not. So both 'Je suis allé a Paris' or 'J'allais a Paris'. Nous allons manger is proper right here - it's the conjugated type of aller (allons) + an infinitive (manger). It is honestly fairly sensible - i have ordinarily over elaborate it. Ask your trainer!

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