Re: French transitivity etc.
| From: | Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, January 30, 2004, 17:13 |
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En réponse à Aquamarine Demon :
>Not really knowing what progressive aspect is (I can wager a guess,
>though... "I am eating" is it, at least...), I can at least tell you that
>in French, "I eat" and "I am eating" (je mange) are the same thing. In my
>3+ years of studying French (and I'm fairly competent in it...), I've
>never encountered a correctly French way to express "I am eating" that
>differentiates itself from "I eat". It may be confusing, mais c'est la vie.
Believe me, it's not confusing at all :)) . Also, you seem to forget the
existence of the expression "être en train de", which indicates progressive
aspect. But due to its length, it has quite a strong progressive meaning
which fits only some cases of use of the English progressive aspect (namely
when you insist on the idea of an on-going action).
Christophe Grandsire.
http://rainbow.conlang.free.fr
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