en libérant vs par libérer
Chris
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27/01/19
The gérondif "en libérant" can be temporal as well as causal.
Ann
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27/01/19
So are the two expressions always interchangeable? If not please explain when to use each...
Alan
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28/01/19
I think "par libérer" (or par + infinitive in general) can only be used after the verbs commencer, finir and their synonyms.
"Elle a commencé par libérer les femmes de l’esclavage du corset."
Apart from these cases, par is followed by a noun, not a verb.
Ann
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31/01/19
Merci
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Ann
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26 January 2019
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en libérant vs par libérer
To translate "Coco Chanel became very popular 'by freeing' women from the corset", they used en libérant while I used par libérer because I thought en libérant would mean "while liberating" vs the "by liberating" they asked for. Am I wrong? Thats what I thought I understood from other examples in the past.
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French writing exercise "Coco Chanel"