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Re: OT: Slightly OT: French as a second language

From:Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...>
Date:Thursday, November 22, 2001, 10:44
En réponse à Patrick Dunn <tb0pwd1@...>:

> > > > Non ! Mes amis, il a découvert la vérité. Maintenant nous devons le > tuer ! > > Told you it sucked. >
:)))
> Okay, I knew the accent marks, but I use pine, so they're beyond the > pale > to type. But why verite instead of vrai? What's the shading in > meaning > there?
Vrai is an adjective. Vérité is the corresponding noun. And I thought that the infinitive took a suffixed pronoun. Or
> is > that the imperative. >
Indeed the imperative. And be careful to use the correct pronoun (there are object pronouns and indirect object pronouns). Pronouns go in front of the infinitive, like with finite forms (except the imperative), and contrary to other Romance languages :) . Christophe. http://rainbow.conlang.free.fr Take your life as a movie: do not let anybody else play the leading role.