prononciation

-emment and -amment The adverbial suffixes -emment and -amment are commonly used to form adverbs from adjectives The suffix -emment is typically added to adjectives that end in -ent. For example: patient (patient) ➡ patiemment (patiently) Vous n’êtes pas très patient ! - Au contraire, j’attends patiemment depuis deux minutes mais votre temps est écoulé. fréquent (frequent) ➡ fréquemment (frequently) C’est une question fréquente dans ce type of jeux: on la pose fréquemment....

L’imparfait The French imperfect tense (imparfait) is a descriptive past tense that indicates an ongoing state of being or a repeated or incomplete action. The beginning and end of the state of being or action are not indicated, and the imperfect is very often translated in English as “was” or “was ___-ing”. We use the imperfect tense to describe situations, people, properties, comments, explanations, repeated actions, and simultaneously occurring actions in the past....