Protips: The little things you learn to pro up your French
En and dans both mean ‘in’ in English but are employed in slightly different contexts and expressions. When used in relation to time, their meanings vary subtly. ‘En’ is used to mark the period in which an action is performed. ‘Dans’ is used to Continue reading “Protip: en or dans?”
One of the things you need to get used to in French is the subject-verb-object order. In English, the pattern is SVO (i.e. subject-verb-object), e.g. ‘He is waiting for you’. In French, however, objects appear before the verb, making the order more akin to SOV. If we translate the previous example, we get Continue reading “Il vous attend”
Mood and tense are two concepts that often get conflated in language studies. Most people tend to have an idea of what tense is, while mood sometimes gets confused as the same thing. Understanding the difference between them is important, especially when it comes to making good choices regarding translation.
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