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Past

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Le Passé - The Past

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Key vocab

  • Hier - yesterday.
  • Avant-hier - the day before yesterday.
  • Dernier, dernière - last.
  • Auparavant - formerly, in the past.
  • Avant - before.
  • Il y a - ago.
  • Longtemps - for a long time.
  • Récemment - recently.
  • Être sur le point de (faire...) - to be about to (do...).
  • Être en train de (faire...) - to be (doing...).
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Le mois dernier

  • Le mois dernier j'étais en vacances.
    • Last month I was on holiday.
  • Il y a un mois, il a perdu son portable.
    • A month ago he lost his phone.
  • Jusqu'à récemment j'habitais avec mon frère.
    • Until recently I lived with my brother.
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Hier

  • Qu'est-ce que tu as fait hier?
    • What did you do yesterday?
  • Je n'ai pas fait grand-chose hier, mais la semaine dernière je suis allé à Paris.
    • I did not do a lot yesterday, but last week I went to Paris.

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1Identity & Culture

2Areas of Interest

3Study & Employment

4Common Tenses

4.1Present Tense

4.2Perfect Tense

4.3Imperfect Tense

4.4Imperfect vs Perfect

4.5Future Tense

5Advanced Tenses

6Extra Grammar

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