6.3: FINIR, to finish
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Je finis mes devoirs. | I'm finishing my homework. |
Tu finis toujours avant moi. | You always finish ahead of me. |
Il obéit à ses parents. | He obeys his parents.1 |
Nous finissons à six heures. | We finish at six o'clock. |
Vous choisissez le petit sac? | You choose the little bag? |
Elles finissent la leçon. | They're finishing (the lesson). |
Passé composé: j'ai fini, ... | |
Imparfait: je finissais, ... | Futur proche: je vais finir, ... |
Futur: je finirai, ... |
1 Note that obéir takes an indirect object ("Il obéit à ses parents"), whereas the English equivalent takes a direct object rH e obeys his parents"! Quite a few f renc h verbs have this c ontrasting pattern See Reference Grammar. 27.1.
BOIRE, to drink
Je bois un coca. | I'm drinking a coke. |
Tu bois de l'eau? | You're drinking water? |
On boit beaucoup de vin ici. | They drink a lot of wine here. |
Nous buvons de la bière. | We drink beer. |
Vous buvez seul? | Do you drink alone? |
Elles boivent du thé. | They're drinking tea. |
Passé composé: j'ai bu, ... | |
Imparfait: je buvais, ... | |
Futur: je boirai, ... | Futur proche: je vais boire, ... |
Exercice III
In this and the following exercise, we ask you to complete sentences in which a past event is mentioned first. In this set, complete the thought by saying what happened next, as in the model. Finally, in sentences 6-8, we ask you to provide your own beginning to the sentence; mention some event (personal, imagined, local, national, or international) that interests you.
Model | Quand vous avez donné cette explication, ... |
Quand vous avez donné cette explication, j'ai décidé de rester ici. |
- Quand le prof a expliqué cette leçon, Louise...
________________________________________________________ - Quand elle est entrée dans la salle, je...
________________________________________________________ - Quand le téléphone a sonné, le directeur...
________________________________________________________ - Quand ils ont frappé à la porte, nous...
________________________________________________________ - Quand nous sommes arrivés au lardin du Luxembourg, les enfants...
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Exercice IV
We provide the same set of cue sentences as we did for Exercice III, but this time we want you to complete them with a background statement—what X was doing or what was going on when the event took place. The event, again, is in the passé composé; your background statement will be in the imparfait. For the last three sentences, you provide an event, as you did in Exercice III; you may use the same ones but are not required to do so.
Model | Quand vous avez donné cette explication, ... |
Quand vous avez donné cette explication, j'étais absente. |
- Quand le prof a expliqué cette leçon, Louise...
________________________________________________________ - Quand elle est entrée dans la salle, je...
________________________________________________________ - Quand le téléphone a sonné, le directeur...
________________________________________________________ - Quand j'ai frappé à la porte, tu..., n'est-ce pas?
________________________________________________________ - Quand nous sommes arrivés au lardin du Luxembourg, les enfants...
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