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adjective adverb aient aimé or aimée allé aller aurais aurait auriez aurions aurons avait avez avoir bien brother C'est CHAP compound tenses Cond CONDITIONAL MOOD conduire CONJUGATION conjunction craindre écrire eût EXERCISE expressed fait father feminine femme fini finished followed French frère FUTURE ABSOLUTE GRAMMAR grand homme IMPERATIVE MOOD IMPERFECT imperfect tense impersonal verb INDICATIVE INDICATIVE MOOD infinitive interrogative irent îtes J'ai J'aurais J'avais livre loved m'en masculine mentir mettre mute noun Nous parler past participle père person singular placed PLUPERFECT plural preposition Pres Present Pret PRETERITE DEFINITE pronoun qu'il rais rait reçu Reflected Verbs regimen rendered rendu repent requires the subjunctive riez ront RULE S. P. Imp second person serais Serv-ons sister sœur speak ssent ssiez subjunctive mood tenir thou tive tombé or tombée tout urent ûtes voir vowel word
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Page 119 - ... the second person singular, and the first and second persons plural of the imperative — but not with the third persons singular and plural.
Page 159 - I am ashamed, but what would you have done if you had been in my place ? Either you took part in the massacre or else you were massacred yourself.
Page 37 - Que j'aie fini Que tu aies fini Qu'il ait fini Que NOUS ayons fini Que vous ayez fini Qu'ils aient fini Plus-que-parfait Que j'eusse fini Que tu eusses fini Qu'il eût fini Que nous eussions fini Que vous eussiez fini Qu'ils eussent fini...
Page 35 - Infinitive, retain i after y in the first and second persons plural of the imperfect of the indicative, and...