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To Be and To Have (French: Être et avoir; also the UK title) is a 2002 French documentary film directed by Nicolas Philibert about a small rural school. It was screened as an "Out of Competition" film at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival [ 2 ] and achieved commercial success. [ 3 ]
There are two auxiliary verbs in French: avoir (to have) and être (to be), used to conjugate compound tenses according to these rules: Transitive verbs (direct or indirect) in the active voice are conjugated with the verb avoir. Intransitive verbs are conjugated with either avoir or être (see French verbs#Temporal auxiliary verbs).
Aside from être and avoir (considered categories unto themselves), French verbs are traditionally [1] grouped into three conjugation classes (groupes): . The first conjugation class consists of all verbs with infinitives ending in -er, except for the irregular verb aller and (by some accounts) the irregular verbs envoyer and renvoyer; [2] the verbs in this conjugation, which together ...
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The passé composé is formed by the auxiliary verb, usually the avoir auxiliary, followed by the past participle.The construction is parallel to that of the present perfect (there is no difference in French between perfect and non-perfect forms - although there is an important difference in usage between the perfect tense and the imperfect tense).
Karolina Dam, par exemple, s’en veut de ne pas avoir aidé Lukas à trouver une foi musulmane plus saine : “J’aurais dû emmener Lukas, une ou deux fois par semaine, voir un bon imam, et l’attendre dans la voiture”, dit-elle. “Toutes les mères de convertis devraient le faire.
A photographer tasked with taking pictures of a possible new location for a hotel is injured in the mountains. The differences between using avoir (to have) and être (to be) in the past perfect are explained, and the new verb voir (to see) is introduced. Personal pronouns in the objective case are explained, alongside a brief summary of word ...
French verbs have a large number of simple (one-word) forms. These are composed of two distinct parts: the stem (or root, or radix), which indicates which verb it is, and the ending (inflection), which indicates the verb's tense (imperfect, present, future etc.) and mood and its subject's person (I, you, he/she etc.) and number, though many endings can correspond to multiple tense-mood-subject ...