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"à tout ce que l'avenir leur réservait": I translate this for myself as "all the future will hold for them". To me it is counterintuitive to use a past tense (even continuous past tense) for events occuring in the future. Please help me make sense of this use of the imparfait.
Thank you for sharing this beautiful and inspirational video. It would have been a fabulous exhibit to have seen in person.
As an alternative to en bousculant les passants, couldn’t you say
En faisant les coudes aux passants ?
The sentence above is used by philosopher Martin Heidegger in his letter to Jean-Paul Sartre in 1945. Why did he use Le Passé Composé, though "depuis" is used?
Why isn't the question above inverted? Is it specific to the usage of "que"?
The next day, I was enrolling at university.
Shouldn't this be 'I was going to enrol at university'?Or 'je m'inscrivais..?'
Why is “sept heures moin dix du matin” marked wrong here?
In the poem "Tristesses de la lune" by Charles Baudelaire, there is a usage of "ainsi que" like:"Ce soir, la lune rêve avec plus de paresse ; Ainsi qu'une beauté..."
First I failed to include this usage to any of the ones above. However, I'm now inclined to think that it means "this way... that". An explanation would be great. Thanks.
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