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Surely, the grammar.
by andrewbinstock 9y ago
Surely, the grammar.
- mirceal 9y agohaha. no. grammar for some of the latin-based languages is ridiculously hard to master. you have trouble with the grammar even as a native speaker. It's not the grammar.
- Florin_Andrei 9y agoSpeaking as someone who learned French in school, I agree. Goddamn plus-que-parfait, it's a trap.
- ternaryoperator 9y agoWhat's the difficulty? The pluperfect is one of the easier tenses in French. Its formation has no exceptions--one of the very rare tenses in French with no exceptions: imperfect + past participle. And its usage directly parallels the pluperfect in English: I had finished my meal when he arrived. J'avais fini mon repas quand il est arrivé.