Re: French transitivity etc.
| From: | Tristan McLeay <zsau@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, January 28, 2004, 15:34 |
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On Mon, 26 Jan 2004, Trebor Jung wrote:
> And does French have a progressive aspect (at all)? The teacher says
> 'I eat' and 'I am eating' are the same thing.
Unfortunately my knowlefge of French doesn't go much further than 'Je ne
pas parle franczais',* so I can't answer anything else, nor even this.
However, English 'I eat' is actually more-or-less the habitual rather than
the present tense we're taught it is; whereas the progressive is more of
the simple present. At any rate, the question you probably want to answer
is whether French has a habitual.
* Sorry, for some reason my computer's very funny today and won't let me
type a cedilla, so I use a little ced---err, zed--instead.
> understand the speech of monoglots *, or say/write/read anything in
>
> * One who speaks only one language (right?).
Oui.
--
Tristan
Mecht most toreck, ånd absolut mecht most toreck absolutelik. Gehalchte
menn vaore nichæ ever uevel menn, jetsvao svao indfluedels evaore
nemmfremm, ånd ne othoritet.
--- Jochn Emerich Edvard Dalberg, Herr Acton
/maiS mQ:tSaitS, Qn afsluS maiS mQ:tSaitS afslulaitS. jQ:f m&: wE Sa jev
ivu m&:, ZEsi fo efluduS evuJE:f, Qn (mwipet_ho/nu:t_horit_heS)/
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